Canon Patent Application: Canon Dual Fisheye Mark II

[Canon Rumors Guy]

There are times I see a cool patent, and look at it and can’t for the life of me explain what it does. I still may have gotten this one wrong, but I don’t think so. I actually sat on this patent all weekend and even forced Craig into an Irish triple expresso before finally

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[koenkooi]

This might make it possible to have more 'macro' style VR captures, for non-skittish things.

 

[EOS 4 Life]

In nowhere do I see 5.2 mm.
This would not necessarily be a mark II.

 

[EricN]

Maybe it's a patent more to stop others from using the same idea (for now)

 

[Richard CR]

In nowhere do I see 5.2 mm.
This would not necessarily be a mark II.

I can invent a title with the best of them

 

[SwissFrank]

This wouldn't merely allow lenses to be closer. Instead, consider if the "default" position was only rotated 1/3 of the way through the quarter-circle. It would thus let you then go like 3x WIDER than that default position, which is often used on binoculars to give an exaggerated effect of 3D.

So, if the current lens is at all popular, the next version might be a relatively telephoto creation that can be positioned to normal eye separation when only partly deployed, but also a wider, binocular-style separation at full deployment.

 

[EricN]

This wouldn't merely allow lenses to be closer. Instead, consider if the "default" position was only rotated 1/3 of the way through the quarter-circle. It would thus let you then go like 3x WIDER than that default position, which is often used on binoculars to give an exaggerated effect of 3D.

So, if the current lens is at all popular, the next version might be a relatively telephoto creation that can be positioned to normal eye separation when only partly deployed, but also a wider, binocular-style separation at full deployment.

I understand about the distance between the lenses changing the 3d effect, but what do you mean, "relatively telephoto"?

 

[Berowne]

Looks like a binocular.

 

[SwissFrank]

but what do you mean, "relatively telephoto"?

Thanks for hearing me out Eric. I meant more telephoto than the current fisheye And given that it uses at most half the sensor, even 40mm would be possibly equivalent to a full-frame 100mm???Also, if the result was still used in VR, then the user might only be looking at 25% of the actual captured view at a time?? So what I was thinking was somewhere between 10mm and say 75mm or something, not actually telephoto as it normally means, such as 135mm+.

 

[InchMetric]

Like binoculars, for generations.

 

[EricN]

It sounds great for someone that wants to make more of a classic 3D style than a modern VR. Although, I guess some people will be more upset that there is no successor to various EF lenses or Sigma lenses.

 

[Pixel]

Did the first version sell very much at all?

 

[AcaPixus]

Seriously Canon - we were waiting for updates to the EF 50 mm f/1.4 and the EOS M5 - not an update to this gadget ...

 

[DhlcadR6]

Admin please don't ban me for saying this...This lens gets Mk.II probably because of the Japanese _orn industry utilized this lens so well.....there's enough demands from the them...

 

[David - Sydney]

Admin please don't ban me for saying this...This lens gets Mk.II probably because of the Japanese _orn industry utilized this lens so well.....there's enough demands from the them...

Data source please!

 

[EricN]

Data source please!

(asking for a friend)

 

[EricN]

Seriously Canon - we were waiting for updates to the EF 50 mm f/1.4 and the EOS M5 - not an update to this gadget ...

Isn't the R10 basically an M5?

 

[AcaPixus]

Isn't the R10 basically an M5?

Certainly not - it doesn't fit any EF-M lenses!

 

[EricN]

Certainly not - it doesn't fit any EF-M lenses!

I will be surprised if there is any other camera produced that can fit EF-M lenses. About an update for the EF 50 mm f/1.4, do you want it to be EF?

 

[DhlcadR6]

Data source please!

If you can go on the japanese language version of DMM, you will found quite a few of them in the 3D/VR section.