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I prefer fixed but I can imagine a day when eVND catches up with fixed in terms of quality.Panasonic recently patented their own version of this, but theirs uses a eVND.
I can't see how it would.It pays for a firm like Canon to patent even ideas it's not pursuing, just to lock the competition out from trying them.
A cinema camera does not need a mechanical shutter but Canon does like to emphasize that the R5 C is a hybrid cinema camera.Of course it may be easier if the body didn’t have a mechanical shutter as the z8/9. R5c doesn’t have ibis so it would be an ideal candidate
Nice shot. You can’t beat lighting an image properly.You also stress electronic circuits and bulbs, and actively reduce the lifespan of the strobe; HSS should be considered, imho, an emergency measure for that single time you forgot the filter pouch at home.
I just shot a nice series of portraits this afternoon in full sunlight, at the max x-sync shutter, with a 3 stop ND, had to close just a third of a stop from f1.4 to f1.6 to get the perfect exposure.
R6, 85 Art, 1/250s, 100iso, f1.6, ND8
Strobe was an AD200 at 1/16 power, with a 110cm umbrella with diffusion
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The ND filter moves completely out of the way.This would be huge, granted you have to have the light. Losing a full stop for a "quality" ND on the fly.... GOLD.
I’ve use HSS on my 580s for years and years and they are still going strong !!You also stress electronic circuits and bulbs, and actively reduce the lifespan of the strobe; HSS should be considered, imho, an emergency measure for that single time you forgot the filter pouch at home.
Your inability to see the reason is irrelevant. Filing blocking patents is a common practice for good reason.I can't see how it would.
Also, they can't patent an idea.
It would just give the idea to the competition to try and get around the patent.
I am willing to be the competition has similar ideas anyway that would result in different patents.
There are many ND filters on the market and i've only found one brand that is truely (or close to true) neutral. Most have a strong colour cast.
I have B+W ND’s and found them to have a very strong copper colour cast. I’ve been using Heliopan ND’s for about 12 years and they are excellent. They also have a colour cast, but it’s quite pleasing and offers a nice look....tell us which brand it is then ahaha! Or it's a well kept secret? is it B+W? Heliopan?
I use only ND's and CPL's, and I admit that, while of course I keep an eye also on colour cast, I mainly look to the level of resolution loss, going for filters that do not degrade the image, or do it only when pixel peeping at 200%. Colour cast if it's not harsh can be easily balanced in post.
I found the sweet spot with quality and price with Marumi's "DHG" and "DHG Super" filter series; the image suffer no degradations whatsoever, and colour cast are mostly non existent. I also have two cheaper Hoya ND's, one is "ND Pro" and the other is a basic "HMC" (the cheapest featuring multi coatings; it was the filter used for the portrait I posted yesterday in this very thread), and a Kenko Smart CPL, and they also feature good and unaltered resolution, and no particular colour cast.
Yes, the older B+W series had a strong cast. The newer ones are very neutral. I posted this test of them almost 7 years ago. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10158072604950405&type=3I have B+W ND’s and found them to have a very strong copper colour cast. I’ve been using Heliopan ND’s for about 12 years and they are excellent. They also have a colour cast, but it’s quite pleasing and offers a nice look.
Meike’s drop in ND’s are remarkable and by far the most neutral, even their 10 stopper. It’s one of the main reasons I’m remaining with my Ef lenses.
Well, I'd say every patent is of an invention, and inventions are ideas, so every patent is of an idea. If you're point is that there are ideas that aren't inventions, fair enough, but it doesn't seem germane to the topic.Also, they can't patent an idea.
Sure, but think: those options are present without the patent... but without the patent, the patented idea is ALSO available to the competition. Really man, look at the patent filings! There are millions upon millions of patents that aren't ultimately used by the filer. Either successful companies like Canon that are so smart at making cameras are nonetheless idiots to be patenting things for NO reason, or, that there IS a reason. You may not think the reason is the reason I give, but you have to either think there is SOME reason, or, that Canon is composed of idiots.It would just give the idea to the competition to try and get around the patent.
If you don't work in a technology business it might not be that obvious, no.I can't see how it would.
Yep, and they're patenting them too, for the reasons that you don't understand.I am willing to be the competition has similar ideas anyway that would result in different patents.
I do.If you don't work in a technology business it might not be that obvious, no.
Whatever man, let's be friends, no reason to fight over it.I do.
There are people whose jobs are R and D.
They patent the results of their research whenever they can.
I can't fathom how "so no one else will come up with it" comes into the picture.
You can patent the results of an idea but not the idea itself.Well, I'd say every patent is of an invention, and inventions are ideas, so every patent is of an idea. If you're point is that there are ideas that aren't inventions, fair enough, but it doesn't seem germane to the topic.
So no-one else can patent something close enough to what you have come up with, such that you would have to pay them if you choose to use it in an actual product in the future. Or to 'block' off the use (and patenting) of relatively small variations (which are relevant to patent attorneys) thereby preventing direct steals of your innovation by the opposition.I can't fathom how "so no one else will come up with it" comes into the picture.