Canon Patent Application: Handheld Gimbal Camera

[Richard CR]

About 4 years ago, Canon trolled me with a series of patent applications describing a handheld interchangeable lens camera attached to a handheld gimbal system. It appeared as if Canon was thinking about taking the EOS-M in a different direction.

Canon Patent Application: Handheld Gimbal Camera

About 4 years ago, Canon trolled me with a series of patent applications describing a handheld interchangeable lens camera attached to a handheld gimbal system. It appeared as if Canon was thinking…

www.canonrumors.com

 

[Zadak]

Yet another mount that will get dropped a few years in because this is just a stupid fad.

I don\'t get why do you need a SEPARATE gimbal with a camera when you can get a gimbal for your phone? Or why not get an Insta 360? Either of those will give you better results imo

Also why if I post from the website (not forum) you escape single quotes? Is that necessary?

 

[koenkooi]

Yet another mount that will get dropped a few years in because this is just a stupid fad.

I don\'t get why do you need a SEPARATE gimbal with a camera when you can get a gimbal for your phone? Or why not get an Insta 360? Either of those will give you better results imo

I suspect camera companies think of it like “Better quality than your phone” and don’t really think about how a phone+gimbal remove the need for using a computer to get the footage where you want.

Lumix is going in the right direction with a powerful and easy to use phone app, Canon has a loooooong way to go there.

 

[Besisika]

I would be interested.

 

[EOS 4 Life]

Yet another mount that will get dropped a few years in because this is just a stupid fad.

I don\'t get why do you need a SEPARATE gimbal with a camera when you can get a gimbal for your phone? Or why not get an Insta 360? Either of those will give you better results imo

Also why if I post from the website (not forum) you escape single quotes? Is that necessary?

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 is a huge seller.
DJI sells plenty of phone gimbals as well.
They make money on both.

 

[EOS 4 Life]

Unlike the DJI Osmo Pocket, this one has a zoom lens.

https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/gazette_work3/domestic/A/506112000/506112300/506112380/506112386/BB1E95079DA6B1E5833E3ABB4DB5DE25D6C294C16E28F0E34AAEC0BF6EAF5906/text/JPA%20506112386_i_000005.jpg?version=202408230845

 

[EOS 4 Life]

I can only see the abstract in the English translation.
The PDF seems to be longer but it is in Japanese.

 

[osakawayne]

Yet another mount that will get dropped a few years in because this is just a stupid fad.

I don\'t get why do you need a SEPARATE gimbal with a camera when you can get a gimbal for your phone? Or why not get an Insta 360? Either of those will give you better results imo

Also why if I post from the website (not forum) you escape single quotes? Is that necessary?

Osmo Pocket 3 is heaps better than an iphone on a gimbal, once they went to 1" sensor the quality improved drastically over an iphone. If Canon released an APS-C version of this, perhaps with interchangeable lenses, it would crush.

 

[Zadak]

Osmo Pocket 3 is heaps better than an iphone on a gimbal, once they went to 1" sensor the quality improved drastically over an iphone. If Canon released an APS-C version of this, perhaps with interchangeable lenses, it would crush.

Iphone doesn't have the best phone cameras, though.

Also for smaller sensors, software will play a much more important role than hardware.

APS-C on a gimbal? Sounds big, losing its whole purpose

 

[osakawayne]

Iphone doesn't have the best phone cameras, though.

Also for smaller sensors, software will play a much more important role than hardware.

APS-C on a gimbal? Sounds big, losing its whole purpose

Being better than the bestselling smartphone camera is the bar they need to set. Canon is a lens maker who HAPPENS to sell camera bodies. They would probably want to sell lenses for it, or treat it like a new generation of powershot cameras possibly with yearly upgrades.

 

[DBounce]

Osmo Pocket 3 is heaps better than an iphone on a gimbal, once they went to 1" sensor the quality improved drastically over an iphone. If Canon released an APS-C version of this, perhaps with interchangeable lenses, it would crush.

DJI is already working on a Pro version of the Pocket 3. They had previously made a gimbal integrated camera with an interchangeable lens system, based on M43. DJI’s Ronin 4D has been a fire a couple years now and features a full frame sensor. I suspect their upcoming release is going to be a refined version of that, with a smaller sensor. Rumors are that it has zoom lens. Hopefully it has built in NDs and internal compressed raw.