Time’s Three Top Gadgets

Not that Time Magazine is a particularly good arbitrator of design and innovation, but it was interesting as to what they picked as their top Consumer Electronic gadgets this year. Of the 23 choices they made, three were cameras: GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILSFujifilm Instax Mini EVO CinemaNikon ZRThree very different cameras, all distinguished by the fact that what they are didn’t really exist prior (action camera with lens mount, Super8 meets instant film, and RED-level product in a small, affordable, more handholdable box with an industry-leading LCD). So Time is obviously rewarding previous unseen innovation over product incrementation. Time does say something that (most in) the photography community hasn’t been saying: that we’re still seeing innovation in the dedicated camera market. The problem, as I’ve noted elsewhere, is that there have been so few new camera introductions recently that what’s really happening in the forum discussions and on social media is that people are really…