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A Canon Concept
This is a concept camera from Canon. The idea behind it is one camera, one lens, do everything. It could go from Macro all the way to 500mm and still be fast.
Canon displayed this concept at EXPO 2010.
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Does it have the 10-400mm f/1.4 IS lens that everybody’s been been waiting for?
It also blow dries your hair?
HOW FABULOUS!
“and still be fast”
It’s VERY fast, can be easily accelerated to 9.82 m/s2.
I know someone who won’t buy it unless it has an EF-S 15-70mm f/4 lens. He’ll be along any moment now….
:D:D:D
Seriously… that can’t be good.
LOL
i’m sure there’s a compartment for shampoo as well.
Wow, really?
I guess there is a market for it – those people that buy a $2000 SLR to use it in automatic mode.
No thanks.
Must have taken them ages to dig out the ‘5 Systems’ designs Luigi Colani did:
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/design/kikaku/t90/03_5systems.html and http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/design/kikaku/t90/05.html
I just got a call from Canon about this. the lens is 1.2 wide and 1.8 zoom. Always a compromise when it comes to lenses.
“accelerated to 9.82 m/s2”
9.82 m/s2 is the acceleration or 9.81m/s2 where I’m from
“accelerated at 9.82 m/s2” would be better me thinks
Canon Rumors Should be covering this instead.
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/tokina_16-28mm_lens_for_canon_and_nikon/#comments
Now that looks like the larger video camera’s from a few years back.
I’ve got the limited edition coffee mug of this.
The linked page says “Canon is pretty confident that by then it’ll have figured out how to do a single lens capable of going from macro shots all the way out to a 5000mm focal length” – note the *three* zeros.
The 500mm figure sounds only a bit more reliable than the 5,000mm figure. I bet toilet paper to U.S.$ they’ve multiplied the real focal length (which I bet toilet paper to U.S.$ is no more than 300mm, more likely 200mm) – by a crop factor.
Note that the link provided says 5 THOUSAND mm, not 500.
Since it won’t come till 2030 it might be called eos 60 D
It doesn’t blow bubbles! So I wouldn’t buy it.
This will usher in a new era of soft direct-print buttons!
“Everything in focus all the time”
lol… No DOF? That’s one feature I would dislike very much.
Can you say PHOTURA??
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1986-1990/outline/1990_ab-jet.jpg
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1986-1990/1990_ab-jet.html?lang=us&categ=crn&page=1986-1990
I am glad to see Canon are finally listening to the Wonder Camera Mark II Team, all the ideas in this camera are basically our ideas.
Thank you.
We.
WE predicted this last year
Glad to see someone on this site has a sense of humor.
How is this supposed to feed my Gear Acquisition Syndrome if I’d only need one lens? :P
Where’s my new 50 f1.4? :(
…and all for under $100..
Price projection is too close to the Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L, plus it looks like it won’t take front mounted filters, which makes it a definite no for me.
Tripods!
Lol, so true.
You mean like the pro’s do.
The bad news is that we will have to wait until 2030 to verify those claims. How about that? A 20-year rumor XD
LOL, did not see the button on that image set – but a viewfinder? why would we still want a view finder?
Why not a tilt screen or even a detached wireless screen.
Is this the model before or after the one in Back To The Future Part 2 that doesn’t require a photographer or a tripod to use it?
Well then, I’ll not be upgrading to 5D3. I’m waiting for this one.
Still, I ain’t buying unless it can do photography at ISO 1 million. (Considering the other features, this should be an easy one.)
The IS in this thing could hold it steady for a minute long exposure… during an earthquake…
Is that supposed to be an f-stop? It’s easy enough to estimate the maximum f-stop for a given focal length. Just divide the diameter by the focal length.
Judging from the pictures, the entrance pupil can’t be any bigger than 50mm (actually, it looks a bit smaller).
At 500mm, then, it would have a maximum aperture of f/10.
Which pros would that be? Ken Rockwell?
LOL
I am waiting for it too :(
Well played.
I take exception to your implication that the rest of us don’t have a sense of humour. You, sir, should be banned.
Thanks for looking out for us Wonder Camera Mark II Team
We all know that the Wonder Camera Mark II Team was the first on the playground on this one.
BTW, does your inside sources know if this will do 720p @ 60 FPS?
I work in a camera shop and have had people come in with decent SLRs that they only ever use in auto mode. Makes me sad. Had a guy come in today who thought he might have a d700. He couldn’t remember what it was.
I’ll be placing this in the “too good to be true” pile for the time being :)
that is all the time –
“not sure which camera I have but i need a lens…”
what lens are you looking for sir?
“the next one…the one after the one I have”
You can buy a Canon 1200mm lens in the used section at B&H right now. Only costs $120,000.
I hope they don’t make this… It looks like a piece of medical equipment
i really really hope it remains a concept……..
Tokina are always optimistic about the price. I guess it will be more like $1000 when it hits the market.
Yes, the filters will be a problem.. but the image quality looks really good.
are there any age restrictions? 6 to 12 years, or so? only kidding. but a hairdryer app would be a great upgrade…only kidding. I’ll keep saving to go FF. While my 30D gently clicks…
More like 5D13 since this Wonder Camera is scheduled for release in 2030 ;)
Well, it’s not now… it is Canon’s vision for what the camera would be like in 20 years.
720P is so 2010.
This is 2030… this baby should do 4320P @ 240fps if Canon wants my money :)
Also, no 3D?
Eh, bupkes.
How about replaceable eyeballs?
Nah… 50 f/0.000001
I thought it was a Vacuum cleaner… whoops :)
No kidding – I have a feeling bokeh is not in this things vocabulary. It’s just a mod point and shoot. I’ll stick with my 5D and 85 1.2 thank you very much.
This cam is not too far away of what I have seen near 1990 at the photokina:
A cylindrical cam of about 400 mm length. The back of the camera was placed on the shoulder, a viewfinder was placed near the front of the camera like in videocams. But the finish of that camera was very smooth, without visible buttons and so on. Zoom factor was about 40 or 60.
I’ve had a guy come to look at a 5D mk ii and ask where the scene mode settings were…
It’s impossible to predrict the future. But this might just be a real glimpse of it. I think the DSLR as we know it will disappear eventually. The mirror-system is something from the past.
yeah this is all i kept thinking
lol thank you! someone agrees
but seriously, that made my day…
weeeeeeeee
that reminds me, where is that 5d2 team guy anyway? hello? are you still out there?
I think hes starting to get the point since everytime he tries to make some official sounding, self serving post on this site he gets shut down by someone different than the last time he said something obnoxious.
. . . . . even if you drop the camera or are arrested and carted off in the back of a police van . . . the camera will still lock on to a perfectly steady shot.
We predicted this would happen using the power of our blog some 40 years ago (before we invented (via our blog) the internet).
Thank you.
We.
We predicted he would be banned late December last year, I am glad to see Canon are finally taking our ‘they should be banned’ list seriously.
Many thanks.
Us.
. . . . like ‘Musouka’ said 720p is very 2010, we at Wonder Camera Mark II Team are harassing and hassling Canon to implement resolution independent video and frame rates quantized to the currently understood limits of temporal division.
We posted this very idea on our blog in the summer of 1974 and are quite surprised it has taken Canon so long to bend to our collective will (and it is a collective, not just me).
Thank you.
All our love.
All of us.
x x.
gravity changes ever so slightly at different locations around the world.
Evn with all this hi tech stuff will have tons of people making a lot of crap photos!
… photoshop job that came out of Japan… after Godzilla.
Only those who like to play with their equipoment refuse to use the autofocus.
Someone who makes a living with their camera knows that they have just a instant to capture “THE” image that is going to earn their bread and butter.
how many prows at the world soccer games, or the olympics use manual focus versus AF.
I wasn’t referring to autofocus, rather the green square “cruise control” automatic shooting mode. :)
it also has XRAY vision
Forget new gear, it’ll all be about faceplates like the cellphone market.
My question is will it be able to do lensbaby, tilt-shift, toy-camera and other shots internally too? How do you attach filters, or is that all done within the camera too?
They need x-ray cameras that take ultra HD, 3D Images and video (simultaneously), through building walls. I also need the camera to hover so I can take self portraits anytime anywhere. Also I would like it to transform into a robot to serve me, so I don’t have to get off the couch to get some food from the fridge.
Wonder Camera Mark II, take notes on what to come out with next ok. I want to see this happen!
Will you be able to use an iPad with this as a video monitor, untethered to a PC/MAC, by then? Probably not.
It shoots wide-angle, macro, and ping pong balls.
Now that’s what I want, but obviously in Ultra HD or better displayed in 3D, because what good is x-ray if it’s not 3D.
I want to take an image of the fridge and see what’s inside and be able look around the food to the back. While it does that it should prepare a grocery list for me or place the order for me.
This camera should shoot at a resolution to capture the smallest atom when zoomed all the way (in near pure black light conditions), while jogging — think night-vision to the extreme (the military and terrorists would love this).
“This is Canon’s best camera ever due to ergonomics.” (That was pretty much his review of the T1i.)
This thing looks straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I half expect to see the model walking upside down in velcro shoes with the thing, taking pictures inside a Pan-Am orbiter. :)
This thing doesn’t need DOF. Because you can choose where to focus and the bokeh in post-processing. Yes, it recodes 3D video.
you mean crap factor?
Yesterday I noticed a tourist using a small Nikon DSLR taking a picture of Inverness Castle, composing on the LCD, her arms outstretched and shaking. It would seem Canon are moving in the direction of encouraging these shaky pictures! I would certainly appreciate the clarity of an LCD as big as on this concept camera [apart from the rounded corners and the thumb prints in the top right corner], but not that very tiny viewfinder.
Ouch. We had a guy who spoke barely any English come in once and just point at a 500D body only and say he wants that. Couldn’t answer about lenses, tried to explain it won’t be able to be used without lenses. Eventually he was persuaded to get a kit. But (as predicted) he had a dodgy card. He ran out of the store when i went to check his credit card.
The convo ran like this
Him – “this is good yeah?” (points at 500D body only)
Me- “yeah but you need a lens to actually use it”
Him – “so is broken?”
Me – “no you need a lens to *explains*”
Him – “Okay so I buy that”
Me – “but you won’t be able to do anything without a lens, do you have any lenses?”
Him – “so no work?”
Me *cries*
We predicted the Wonder Camera Mark II Team would say that.
Regards,
Them.
Not only is it a camera of the future, it must see into the future. Check the look on her face looking at the screen: “Sarah Palin is president!!!!”
Who cares about the cam. The girl is bukkake-class hot.
LOL! And with htese lense she surely can Russia from Alaska absolutely tack sharp…
oops…
I was about to write: And with this lense she surely can Russia see from Alaska absolutely tack sharp…
forget it ;-) spent too much time in the sun this afternoon…ROFL…;-)
:-)
LOL rock on!
Countdown to unemployment lol People everywhere are going to be “pros”…real pros!!
I think canon should sell this idea to apple…definitely. An all purpose camera that also replaces the ipod, ipad, and iphone.
Does it bleach teeth? That would be nice. My clients are all ugly people with rotten teeth. It will make me a star :)
When buying a high end camera, you are buying expensive sensors (not the picture sensor) that will calculate things for you.
Which means, it is the opposite of what you are saying : people buying $2000 camera and using them fully manual are stupid.
A 7D is a 550D with better sensors. (AF, exposure, etc)
this is just full on stupid…
It’s a piss-take, right?
If not, I’d just like to say that although I always want my subject in focus, I don’t always want EVERYTHING in focus!
That version is limited to the Bangkok market!
I think I know what it’s called – the Powershot Pro1 MkII. Think about it – superzoom one-lens camera that shoots RAW and video in one small, neat package.
By now you’ve guessed that I have a Pro1. Er, yes and I only realised how great it is when I got 5D MkII.
It’s even ahead of its time in almost being EVIL. Now if they did it with interchangeable lenses and a decent focussing system…Come on Canon, please give us a Powershot Pro1 MkII!
“Photography cease to be an art form”. That has been on card for sometime and even more so in the future when you can just take any framel from a RAW video and it is as good as any stills.
You first
That be a WONDERful lens.
Ken Rockwell designed it.
This would look like a weapon in the hands of an ASIMO
http://www.howstuffworks.com/asimo.htm
Whats all the sarcastic comments about? years ago, we never dreamt of cameras being able to do a tenth of what this camera could do. At least, it will comfortably knock off all your cameras put together. 20 yrs from now is just a forecast. Production companies usually dont take that long to produce stuff that have been on the exhibition stand cos their competitors are definitely not foolish enough to let them take over their markets. Watch out, i hope we dont get shoked about something more revolutionary compared to this in 10years.