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Canon Wonder Camera
Have you ever wanted to know what one of the world’s biggest camera manufacturers thinks the future looks like? Wonder no more, as Canon have been showing off their Wonder Camera Concept at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. This hairdryer-like fixed lens camera will zoom all the way up to 5000mm, have a touch-sensitive interface and only shoot video. Don’t sell your DSLR kit just yet, as Canon’s Wonder Camera might be yours sometime around 2030. Click through to take a look at a video demo courtesy of Gizmag.
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#1 john frenzel
Oh man, that is butt ugly. I hope they redesign before production. Or maybe scrap it completely. Of course 2030 is still a long way off
11:42 am - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#2 Vashistha
Hey I think they have to put there attention towards the new version after 550D....
12:54 pm - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#3 Cornell
A few comments:
1. This is a concept camera which could take a long time to go onto the market. The narrator speculates that it will be 10 - 20 years.
2. The concept camera is about the size of a DSLR.
(a) This appears to imply that the concept camera has comparable weight.
(b) It would not be surprising if the cost of the concept camera, at present, is akin to that of a DSLR and lens.
(c) Most people like smaller cameras.
(d) Technology will need to advance to the stage that camera will be comparable to super zoom non-DSLR cameras in terms of size, weight, and cost in order for this to be commercially viable.
This sounds like a camera which has a future -- in the not near future.
2:36 pm - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#4 Mark
April Foo...no, wait.
4:06 pm - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#5 Pradeep
2030? thats eternity!
7:06 pm - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#6 rob
2030 seems like eternity, but it's not like Canon couldn't roll that concept out sooner. Technical difficulties are enormous, but even more difficult is for a camera maker to change people's attitudes and perceptions toward a radically new concept.
This camera is to be mainly a HD video camcorder with image quality good enough to extract single frames as stills. To accomplish that, the ergonomics of today's cameras have to be radically changed. Everything else seems to be less challenging...
8:40 pm - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
#7 GT
2030??????? I can't wait that long! I'll be dead! LOL
Why can't they just go ahead and do it in like 5 years? LOL
All they have to do is increase the HD standard to some sort of SuperHD where the frame is not 1920x1080, but like at least quadruple that, and the frame needs to be shot at like 120 frames a second, then they could probably get a decent freeze frame out of it without too much blur.
Didn't somebody already test a SuperDuper HD resolution TV? Yeah, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hi-Vision
7:43 am - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
#8 S a l
The main thing they have to manipulate is the NOISE that need to be cleaned up with a higher resolution chip, and fast shutter rates. It should not be too hard to figure out noise reduction without losing sharpness and quality.
7:46 am - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
#9 Mike
Ugh! No thank you!
11:49 am - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
#10 Cindy
I have not doubt that it will be ready long before 2030 and I think the shape is going to be very popular among the average consumer who is NOT tech savy. They would never be showing a concept that was not ready to be released until 2030 because their competition would be able to steal their proprietary info. Patents are only good for 10 years. Does not make sense that it will not be released for 20 years.
8:35 pm - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
#11 John
This is obviously a concept camera so they are trying to shoe-horn current tech to simulate what future-tech will do. The size and form right now is because they need a DX or FX size sensor to get reasonable noise performance, likewise with the glass needed for good clear zoom performance. Canon is obviously working on the idea that future computer power will allow them to shrink these components (advanced form of Sony's Twilight Mode and image combination algorithms). However, much like the camera companies have pretty much ceased in their megapixel war after hitting the wall with pixels per inch I think they are in for a hard reality as to how effective their shrinking will be. The continuous full resolution capture is probably the best they can hope for.
1:18 am - Thursday, July 8, 2010