"But what makes the Olympus AIR extremely versatile and "hacker friendly" is the fact that it has an open architecture, with Olympus providing an SDK (Software Developer's Kit), documentation and even physical design files for users to easily customize and control the camera for their own applications, as well as to spur innovation. Never before has a camera manufacturer so completely and officially opened a product to end-users, software developers, experimenters and system integrators."
My obsession with smartphone connected lenses continues. I have an older m43 Olympus, so could get the body only version of this. At $300USD, that's still much more than an impulse buy.
The reviewer is a fan, but the apps -- and even the Bluetooth connectivity -- sound like they could have been designed much better. Software continues to be the Achilles heel of large consumer electronics cos.
With an SDK, what could be built around this chunk of hardware? And of course, without an open protocol (is there one?) around connected cameras, it means figuring out the quirks of this one device, and hoping that the company keeps making it!
(Wacky idea: kickstart better software for this, and at higher tiers bundle in this device?)
