Canon Wonder Camera Concept displayed at Expo 2010

On display at World Expo 2010 Canon's "Wonder Camera Concept" is the camera of the future visualized twenty years hence by the world's largest camera company...and it is incredibly thought-provoking.

Read the full story at http://www.gizmag.com/canon-wonder-camera-concept/15591/

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Science & Technology

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• canon
• wonder camera
• concept camera
• world expo 2010
• photography

[dameandrake]

ENHANCE. ENHANCE. GO TO SECTOR X24. ENHANCE.

[photoboynyc]

Ummmmm...have you ever thought that just MAYBE having everything in focus is not what a photographer would want? And has Canon figured out how to fire my strobes with all those continuous frames of a moving image? And not for nuthin', but what consumers sometimes want is quite often hardly what consumers really need!

[tybruce37]

Your video is popular on Micronesia

[billconner718]

Your video is popular on Solomon Islands

[birbaldesi]

For the Panasonic wall, 4Kx2K at that size is not impressive as the commentator says. The pixel density would be so low with such large screens...

[roosswald]

@t045tbr0t fair enough, though I hate the potential (even further) degradation in quality of consumer snapshots this may induce (considering what crap people deem worth exposing to the world, just look at their mobile phone pics they put everywhere and think that's art), the tech may have sense, though this presentation still sucks big time. Actually the JVC cam description tells more than this whole video :)

[t045tbr0t]

@roosswald I think the innovative part is that they foresee this changing the process of taking pictures. I don't know if I like the idea of picking out the good frames from a video stream, rather than deliberately picking my shots, but it is a concept that hasn't been pushed before, I think.

Oh, and actually, a couple of days ago, JVC actually announced a camera that sounds just like the "Wonder Camera" (it's called the GC-PX10)

[roosswald]

@t045tbr0t I know, they're not stupid to try to sell something like that, but it's still hideous, and concept is pretty vague and unimpressive. Maybe the whole presentation with those big screens looked nice, but I didn't really find anything innovative here.

[t045tbr0t]

@roosswald you do realize it's a concept, not any sort of real, usable product current technology could build? ;)

[roosswald]

Looks to me, from usability perspective, as a piece of crap, even for consumer market (common p&s much better controls). Plus it's butt-ugly.

From the tech side, it may be using (already demonstrated) variable focus technology, or whatever it's called.

Also, note that, despite the supposedly high resolution, that feather and butterfly on the backdrop are larger than human head. So it's not _that_ impressive, but looks like a nice tech development path. Still, as a product, it's just crap.

[GamersPath]

In future we will have eye lenses that will permit shooting video and capturing still and then we will propbably store them in our brain and project them on what surronds us so that only we can see then or for public view...

[jjpjimmy]

@xTurnipTimex dof can be done by algorithms (like it's already done in 3d modeling apps, eg blender/3dmax).

have you seen the news for lytro?