The WVIL camera - footage from CES - seriously amazing
Saw this posted on my G+ feed. Footage from CES.
Wireless
Viewfinder
Interchangeable
Lens
Wait til 1:05...My jaw is on the floor
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Wireless
Viewfinder
Interchangeable
Lens
Wait til 1:05...My jaw is on the floor
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I think the specs would give some insight as to some advantages.
About 10 frames a second for 180 frames, from a camera kit that weighs around 2 pounds.
A 28-100 f2-f3.8 lens that weighs less than a pound.
5 inch display.
In camera (or maybe body) photo editing.
All you need is a wifi printer to make sales on site.
I wonder if you can set up multiple lenses, and switch to different ones while sitting in a chair at a wedding?
If not, I'll bet it'd be in the firmware upgrade.
Macro would be easier.
No camera shake tripping the shutter.
I'm sure innovative folks would find many ways to use the new technology.
From the website: http://www.artefactgroup.com/wvil/
I think this could be a lot of fun.
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If you disconnect the 2 main components, presumably to gain a better vantage for the lens/imager, you now have 2 items to contend with. (Notice in the video at the link how the presenter hands the lens/imager to the spectator.)
If you want to change lenses you are also changing the imager. That cannot be cheap.
I just can't envision how this is better than a traditional camera with an articulating display, and a wireless transmitter to send the selected best "results" wherever you wish.
Perhaps the uses will be more evident as they release more information and get closer to a final version?
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It looks like they have lens adapters for different manufactures lenses.
It looks as if there's a sensor in the adapter.
So whether you own canon or Nikon lenses, you may be able to use those.
The question would be, will the lenses still have autofocus and aperture control.
At 31 or 32mp on a full framer, what is the pixel size?
I know my 5DMKII has the same pixel size as my 8mp 30D.
What I'm getting at is the sensor may not be all that advanced, just a larger
version of a crop 10 mp sensor, so maybe the cost may not be as much as we think.
Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
Neil
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Odd that the two are happening the same week.
http://www.canonrumors.com/2012/01/patent-short-range-wireless-lens-mount-other-accessories/
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On the one hand - super cool tech, on the other - demonstrating it on a walkway, not a stand
On the one hand - walking around with the camera, in the open, at a camera show... on the other - just happening to get a phone call (on a prototype device) and insisting on no photos!!
I too can see how cool a concept this is, just made very suspicious by the way the video was put together. Perhaps I'm just getting cynical in my old age...
...about "cynical" I don't know... but about "logical" you made good points!thumb
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Oh, I smelled "staged" from a mile away. How the guy shooting the video just happens to walk up RIGHT as the guy begins describing the camera, it just seems staged. But either way, if the product is real, the concept is AWESOME!
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Odd's the word! Good catch, David!
Glad it wasn't just me then
They impress themselves, and they think we're stupid!!
Neil
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Neil
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Totally missed that. (Laughing at self.)
I'm just not ready to give up on 2011.
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It's a byproduct of misperception and "herd behavior" that is common in humans.
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At my previous employer I remember a time when 3 of our top accountants were preparing for the annual meeting. They had given me the figures from which to build the PowerPoint presentation. This was maybe a week before the meeting itself. (Fortune 500 company.)
All three accountants had reviewed the results and they were rather pleased that the figures were better than expected (which should have been a hint.)
They also submitted the figures to our president, who had an accounting background. He had already done his own preliminary calculations, and his figures were different from theirs so he asked the accounting department to review their calculations.
Sure enough, all of the accountants had interpreted the figures incorrectly. (This was back when some of the data came from a mainframe computer and then it was manually copied and inserted into PCs for the purpose of the year-end results.
There was this mad dash to re-figure everything and then I wound up with almost no time buffer to re-prepare the PowerPoint presentation.
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The same thing happened here, and only user "thoth" saw the date for what it was. The fact that "CES" is current obfuscated our comprehension and processing of the date. This is partly the reason why "eye witness" accounts are often proven false too.
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