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Selfie is one of the most popular trends in the current shooting scene - no one.

Some people think that this is a trend. There is also an analysis in the area that links self-portraits with narcissism. But no matter what the self-portrait is, it actually witnesses changes in technology, and technology also promotes the development of self-paced culture.

Self portrait, no one imagines the simple

When everyone thinks that self-portraits are just ignorance of boys and girls, in fact, it's not easy to take a horizontal selfie. "Self-shooting" is completely contrary to the common sense of normal shooting: shooting was originally based on the antagonistic relationship between the "shooter" and "being the photographer", but "self-timer" subverted this opposition (below), itself is a contradiction proposition .

Since the photographer and the subject are in opposite positions, both parties must have a certain distance. However, the self-timer and the person being photographed have theoretical distances close to zero. Therefore, in most cases, the self-timer can easily block the entire screen and cannot accommodate other backgrounds. Suppose you want to take a photo with the attraction when you are traveling, or When you take a group selfie at the event, you will find it difficult to make a shot.

Just think about it: The most famous self-timer in history - Ellen DeGeneres's selfie at the 2014 Academy Awards, the truth is the following picture, one by one star must face twisted together, otherwise they will be squeezed out of photos, stars It will lose this historic moment.

Secondly, most of the current cameras are designed based on the photographer facing away from the object being photographed, and never considered the operation in the self-portrait environment. So in the case of self-timer, the camera's viewfinder is facing away from the photographer, not to focus, composition, or even to judge the expression when taking a picture is not easy. In addition, most of the camera's operation buttons are also back to the self-timer, and it is not easy to double-click the shutter when taking a self-portrait, let alone adjusting the details.

Because of the variety of self-timer, it is not easy for us to take a variety of unsightly postures when taking self-portraits. Let's not talk about the strange appearance of taking selfies in public. When you think about your self-timer, you need to stretch out your arm and carefully adjust your composition and operation. When you are strenuous and embarrassed, your arm is thick because of the perspective. It will also inevitably be photographed.

Veteran selfie technology: selfie stick and sports camera

In spite of this, self-timer is still a huge demand for the average user. So people are always looking for the best way to take a selfie. Since the advent of the camera, the earliest self-timer "technology" was to set up a tripod in the distance and use the self-timer countdown function or infrared remote control to take pictures.

However, this method is not convenient and it is not easy to control. Therefore, the tripod became a monopod afterwards...it is the traditional selfie stick (below).

Although according to Wikipedia, the first officially commercialized selfie stick was the Minolta Disc-7 camera in 1983; but since the camera was still clunky, self-timer and self-timer behavior has not been popularized.

Until 2005, Canadian Wayne Fromm patented the selfie stick and became the originator of the self-timer today. According to Business Insider, when Wayne Fromm launched its selfie stick, the GoPro, a sporty camera that had just emerged, turned out to be a big hit with the sport machine.

Why does the GoPro Sports Camera fit in with the selfie stick? Many people analyze self-timer trends and ignore the role of GoPro and other sports cameras. Ai Faner once mentioned that GoPro was originally just a camera that could be attached to a hand strap; because GoPro itself was designed to be wearable, it has a great affinity with accessories, and it also makes it increasingly pursue miniaturization.

At the same time, although the feature phone was small at the time, the above camera was still not very reliable and could not be used with various camera accessories. Although the card camera was reliable, it was still a little bulky for the selfie stick. As a result, GoPro, a miniature wearable camera, quickly matched the self-timer, allowing users to start taking selfie sticks.

Under the help of the selfie stick, the sports camera silently promoted the development of self-portrait culture.

Sports Camera: Self-paced socialization

Miniaturized cameras and selfie sticks are the source of self-portraits, but social media is the main cause of the self-portraits.

While GoPro began to develop, social networks such as Facebook and YouTube also grew rapidly. Many GoPro users have also begun to share their own extreme sports and travel self-portraits on social networking sites (above); therefore, GoPro has become an important source of YouTube video quickly when smartphones are not yet available. Many analyses pointed out that GoPro later also noted the importance of social networking sites in their operations, and further developed GoPro as an important tool for social media.

Soon, at each beach, every snow-capped mountain, and even at every tourist attraction, there were a group of people taking selfie sticks and taking pictures with their sports cameras (below).

The selfie stick can solve the problem that the camera is too close to the subject, but because the distance between the camera and the photographer (also the subject) is far away, the operation becomes difficult. At the same time, although the camera can promote Self-paced socialization, but users still have to take photos and videos to the computer, the procedures are still complicated.

Therefore, although the sports camera promotes self-paced culture, the turning point of the self-timer wave is the popularity of smart phones.

Smartphone: Self-paced smart

As the camera becomes smaller and smaller, the phone also begins to have powerful shooting capabilities. In 2011, on the famous photo sharing site Flickr, mobile phone shooting ushered in a critical explosion: iPhone 4 became the most used camera in the world.

In addition to the advent of the Golden Age, which symbolizes mobile photography, the iPhone 4 has also contributed to the mega trend of the mobile Internet and has driven mobile social networks and instant sharing behavior. In addition, the immense high-resolution touch screen of the iPhone 4 and Shanshan's late front-end lens also reduced the embarrassment that we did not have a viewfinder and no buttons when taking self-portraits.

With the immediacy of social networks and the convenience of mobile phone self-timer, the self-timer trend has reached its peak. In 2014, the famous Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie and also came from the Samsung Galaxy Note3 smartphone.

But the impact of smartphones on selfies is more than that, and more importantly: it makes selfies more intelligent.

Smart camera technology does not actually begin with smart phones; Fujifilm’s Finepix S6000 camera, introduced in 2006, may be the world’s first camera to use Face Detection. However, the powerful computing power of smart phones and the momentum of rapid growth have attracted companies to quickly use various cutting-edge smart technologies in mobile phones (above).

Although self-timer with a mobile phone is far simpler than a sports camera, the distance between the photographer and the subject still poses great operational difficulties. It is still not easy to take a good selfie. Taking into account the various operating difficulties due to the self-time auction, manufacturers have also introduced a large number of smart design to help users self-timer, and the best of them is - "beauty shot" (above)

The ability of smart phones to be open and fast is combined into a pile of “beauty camera” applications that allow each girl to become a beautiful woman through beautiful skin, going to class and filters, and even various artificial intelligence algorithms. In the end, various beauty images attracted a lot of young girls and rushed to upload their own beauty photos into a circle of friends.

With the self-timed technology, it has entered a new height, and the self-timer culture has also entered a new dimension.

Self-drone drones: Why not self-portraits?

When the public’s demand for self-timer continues to increase, self-timer mobile phones and self-portrait sharing social networks continue to increase, we would like to have better self-portraits; at the same time, drone technology continues to develop, and drone companies are actively looking for aerial photography. Outside the new scene. Until 2015, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 801 mobile phone chip into a drone, which drove the miniaturization of drones. The launch of the self-portrait drone XIRO and zero-degree intelligence DOBBY symbolizes the new milestone of self-portrait technology.

As a result, we took ourselves to the sky.

In 2016, self-portrait drones appeared like bamboo shoots, and used various advanced technologies of drones in self-portrait scenes, including wireless video streaming, human face recognition, gesture recognition, and intelligent follow-up. The flying drone can pull the distance between the photographer and the subject, but it can be easily manipulated through the mobile phone, and no stout arms will be taken into the photo.

Undoubtedly, the sharp blades of drones, the influence on the surrounding environment, and the various troublesome procedures for drone selfies have limited the development of self-portrait drones. But even if the drone does not fly to the sky, its technology can still be on the ground and promote the development of self-timer. Ai Faner mentioned earlier that Dajiang introduced the drone's PTZ technology into the handheld PTZ and used its computer vision to track the target; even if the self-timer is not staring at the viewfinder, they can easily take pictures of themselves. Fixed in the center of the screen.

Self-timer: The crystallization of narcissism and high-tech?

Because of this self-timer behavior, it is a violation of human shooting habits, and the difficulty is actually beyond our imagination. However, with the help of various new technologies, we have reduced the difficulty of self-timer and meet the needs of self-timer.

When you think about it, an Instagram selfie has the most advanced chip processing, the most extensive social networking support, and the most powerful artificial intelligence algorithm. So, if you say "narcissism is the mother of self portrait"? That technology can be regarded as the father of self portrait.

In the future, we must be narcissistic and believe that it will become easier and easier.

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