Sony has unveiled a new product called the Party-shotâ„¢. Basically, it is a motorized digital camera base for Sony cameras that tracks people in a room, looks for faces and if it finds one, snaps a photo.

After I read Sony’s press release at DPReview.com I started thinking: could you make money with four or five of these in your camera bag? Some ideas:

• Put several Party-shots around the room at a wedding reception / class reunion / prom then upload all the images to the web immediately after the event.
• Have an assistant pull the memory cards from the cameras every 20 minutes and add them to a projected slide show happening during the event (people love to look at themselves).
• School photographers who contract to shoot every high-school event could have an assistant set these up at pep-rallies or small events to free the photographer up for other shoots.
• Can you think of any other ideas?

While this will never replace a professional photographer, could it take enough candid shots that a few great ones might pop out that you would have otherwise missed?

All I know is, if the Party-shots is popular this Christmas, every camera manufacturer will have one next year. I want one to experiment with. How about you?

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