這是Youmeus Design於2011年爲Lumix委託創作的“ Girls Night Out”相機，當時智能手機非常時髦，沒有那些令人討厭的相機凸起。

This piece isn’t really about the camera in the article, but is rather a point I’m trying to make through this camera concept that popped up while I was searching the internet for content. Just to satisfy your own curiosity, this is the Girls Night Out camera, created by Youmeus Design as a commissioned work for Lumix in 2011, when the smartphones were thicc enough to not have those godawful camera bulges.

現在手機越來越薄，但相機越來越大。結果，就是您看到的幾乎所有智能手機的頂部都有難看的凸起。而它唯一的功能就是能拍攝一些出色的照片……否則，這就是智能手機設計中的最大弱點。但是攝影機凸出將手機變成具有大鏡頭、大傳感器以及出色的攝影能力！

Fast-forward to today, present-day-2019. Phones are getting thinner, but cameras larger. The result, an unsightly hump on the top of almost every smartphone you see today. The hump’s only actual credit is that it clicks some remarkable pictures… it is, otherwise, a visual and physical weak-point in smartphone design. But camera bulges aren’t going anywhere, are they, so what’s really stopping us from adding a few more millimeters to them and turning them into full-blown photography tools with large lenses, large sensors, and the ability to be physically great cameras, rather than being computationally great ones?

2011年的一款便攜式攝像機，但是如果您花一點時間查看倒數第二張圖片，則感覺就像是配備了Pictar Pro或Moment風格配件的智能手機。爲什麼不只是做一個凸起（任何小於半英寸的凸起就可以了），然後像手持攝像頭一樣在手機邊緣添加鏡頭。擁有一個旋轉的屏幕以方便拍攝，並且您擁有一部手機，雖然它雖然很厚，但表面上看起來卻是最驚人的相機。整個凸塊都可以用來增加堅固的穩定裝置，而且您將鏡頭放在邊緣而不是表面上，這意味着您可以將圓柱形凸塊真正地轉換爲具有令人難以置信的遠攝功能的鏡頭。更不用說更厚的手機也會讓您擁有更厚的電池。並不是說這種格式將是最受歡迎的一種，但是創意總是從不可思議的想法開始的！

The concept below is literally a handycam from 2011, but if you take a second to look at the second-last image, it almost feels like a smartphone with one of those Pictar Pro or Moment-style accessories. So here’s my hot take… why not just make a bump that isn’t too large (anything less than half an inch is great), and add the lens on the edge of the phone, like a handycam. Have yourself a swiveling screen for easy filming purposes and you’ve got yourself a phone that is admittedly thick, but would ostensibly have the most amazing camera on it. The entire bump could be utilized to add a hefty stabilization unit, and the fact that you’ve got the lens on an edge, rather than a surface, means you can literally turn that cylindrical bump into a lens with incredible telephoto capabilities. Not to mention a thicker phone would also allow you to have a thicker battery. Not saying the format would be a sureshot crowd-favorite, but hey, anything’s better than those ridiculous flexible display phones, am I right? I mean, if you’re going to add millimeters to a smartphone, at least give it a great camera!

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