Translucent Mirror coming soon??

[Meatcurry]

Not sure if this has been posted before

http://thenewcamera.com/canon-patent-dslr-camera-with-fixed-mirror/

Although the article states that this is a fixed translucent mirror, the actual drawing shows the mirror in both up and down positions.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

 

[Khalai]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

That is one positive thing about pellicle mirrors, but I'm not sure it overcomes the negatives.

 

[Meatcurry]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

That is one positive thing about pellicle mirrors, but I'm not sure it overcomes the negatives.

Well the patent I'm referencing, has the mirror still capable of moving UP, whilst other patents have some kind of variable transmittance. I'm hoping that some kind of variable transmittance mirror with hybrid OVF/EVF sees the light of day before the mirror dies out completely.

 

[Khalai]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

That is one positive thing about pellicle mirrors, but I'm not sure it overcomes the negatives.

I don't want any pelican mirror (ha!), I want a slapping mirror with the option of lifting it up and use an EVF with DPAF/MF assist, when the need arise.

 

[Labdoc]

Pellicle mirror could work if you could develop smart glass that would go to a mirror on the opaque phase. The response time would have to be improved. Essentially an electronic mirror with no moving parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

That is one positive thing about pellicle mirrors, but I'm not sure it overcomes the negatives.

Well the patent I'm referencing, has the mirror still capable of moving UP, whilst other patents have some kind of variable transmittance. I'm hoping that some kind of variable transmittance mirror with hybrid OVF/EVF sees the light of day before the mirror dies out completely.

That sounds like the existing mirror, it has a pellicle center section where part of the light goes thru to a sub mirror underneath it, thru a lens and onto a AF sensor in the bottom of the mirror box

Don't hold your breath, there are many patents from Canon as well as others. One of the issues is light reflecting off both faces of a pellicle mirror and creating a ghosting effect. Really thin glass reduces it, but then, you do not want it banging up and down. Canon has a patent to make the super thin pellicle mirror as well.