Nikon S51c - Flickr sharing deconstructed
8 comments October 15th, 2007 12:56am BenSeese
Nikon & Flickr have been commingling more & more the last year (nikonstunninggallery.com, flickr.com/nikon). Now the last couple Nikon wireless cameras make the claim that they can upload pictures to Flickr. Finally, right?! This seems great, because while several wireless cameras have had the ability to transfer wirelessly to your own computer, they haven’t really been able to get your stuff out to the real world where they belong. The wireless transfer just moved the files from camera to computer, but you still had to sit down at your computer if you wanted to y’know, do anything with them. Last year, Nikon made the S7c, which had the ability to at least email your photos from the camera. Close, but no cigar: the email only contained a link to Nikon’s ugly photo-hosting website. I’ve got 8000 photos online already at Flickr; I’m not going to move over to an inferior website just because my little camera happens to put my photos there.
These last two cameras, the S50c and the S51c, seem to finally cut the computer out of the equation. Again, though, it looks like Nikon have gotten close to a good thing, but failed. Here’s where the camera-to-Flickr system falls short:
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