Nikon’s mirrorless is going to be absolutely amazing. Patents have been published that show a Nikon mirrorless camera without a mechanical shutter, first picked up by a Japanese blog before being helpfully aggregated by NikonRumors.
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The Taiwanese manufacturer of the iPhone 4’s camera, Omnivision, are producing a small sensor that features a global shutter. Sony meanwhile have patented new type of lens with liquid elements which vary in shape depending on an electrical charge being applied. This makes possible ultra tiny optical zoom lenses.
2D is dead long live 2D pop-up-book-o-vision. Panasonic have announced in Japan that they’re developing a pancake proportioned 3D lens for the Micro 4/3rds system, which will be compatible with existing cameras like the GH1 with a firmware update. Presumably the GH2 will be compatible out of the box. Tokyo based Akihabara News was at the press conference and have more images of a frankly laughable prototype, which has the…
‘Tester13’ has identified the sensor modes and parameters related to the HDMI output of the GH1 with an aim to enable live output for monitoring simultaneously while recording, or even uncompressed HD signal for recording footage on an external device (such as Nanonflash, above).
Great news for Vimeo users. Gone is the 25k load limit on embedding HD video. You don’t have to purchase more if your video becomes a hit for people to view it in HD on a website.
Camera companies get it wrong sometimes. Here EOSHD, with tongue in cheek, tries to help them with 20 suggestions.
Footage from the iPhone 4’s HD video mode with Nikon AI lenses has been posted on Vimeo along with an iPhone app which enables new video mode functionality previously unavailable, and can offer manual focus & exposure.