Nokia Conversation: Surveys Show Removing People From Photos is One of the Most Asked for Feature in Cameras

Nokia SmartCam brings some awesome features, one of which is the ability to remove unwanted people/subjects from a photo (something Nokia played on in their latest 925 advert). Well a recent survey asking about what features people want in their cameras/photos proved that most people want to remove an unwanted someone from their pics:

The survey of a thousand online participants found that half of 18-25 year-olds most want a feature on their camera phone that removes a moving object or person from their images over any other feature.

Of course some other manufacturers (Samsung and Sony) have their own “features” such as capturing underwater or by voice command, those didn’t match up so well with the surveyed crowd:

The survey conducted by Redshift Research, on behalf of Nokia, found that over half of young people are more interested in having a feature on their camera phone that removes a moving object or person from their images than capturing photos underwater (25%) or taking photos with sound (7%)

In case you’re interested in some more stats here’s some more data collected in the survey:

• Double the number of people (of any age) would most like to have a feature on their camera phone that removes a moving object / person from their image (39%) than have a camera phone that takes photos with sound (19%)
• 45% of 25-34 year-olds would most like to have a feature on their camera phone that removes a moving object / person from their image than have a camera phone that takes photos with sound (14%) or has the ability to capture photos underwater (26%)
• 62% of people would most like to delete passers by from photos, but 9% would rather delete former partners and 3% would prefer to delete former friends
• 64% of women would most like to remove passers by from photos they have already taken, vs. 59% of men
• 15% of men would most like to remove photobombers from photos they have already taken, vs. 12% of women
• 30% of 25-34 year-olds have been photobombed, vs. only 10% of 45-54 year-olds
• 39% of women and 29% of men say they regularly have to retake a picture because of an unwanted person or object obscuring the view

Nokia Smartcam is pretty awesome, my only issue with it is the fact that it takes slightly lower quality images, and that it has to “capture” for a longer period (compared to BB10’s variant which starts capturing frames before you press the capture button, so it’s more of a “beneath the hood feature”).  Still it’s an awesome feature that doesn’t get half the recognition it deserves!

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Category: Applications, Lumia, Nokia, Windows Phone