A new Panasonic US patent filed on June 4 discloses that Micro Four Thirds camera with “cube” form just like the recently introduced Olympus Open Platform camera prototype (article and images here). But the Panasonic patent is more detailed about the camera details than the Olympus prototype. The Panasonic version uses a color separation prism and three sensor each sensible to different colors (Red-Green-Blue).
Such a camera may be suited for professional video recording. But if that patented idea will ever make it into a real mass product is yet unclear.
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So it’s like old Sony Handycams right?
Probably with m4/3 sensors.
it’s like current panasonic videocams.
Very clever idea, such a DSLM can be made as big as a normal DSLR and the space normally occupied by the mirror can be replaced by this 3 layer sensor ensemble. Very good for video, because it will totally eliminate any moire and aliasing and wil have much better color definition, detail and sensitivity.
It will still have some aliasing due to misalignment of three sensors – software will use it to boost megapixel count
What misalignment? I suspect the only way to make this work would be through aligning the images in software. Any imperfections in the optical path would change where the light from the same source point falls on each the sensors… if the imperfections were large enough, the changes would scramble pixel locations between sensors.
I have no idea how perfect an optical path can be made with regard to the above problem. Equally I have no idea how much of any scrambled information you can recover through processing the images in software. I suspect that to do this correctly would be very hard LOL
However, if it all works well, I would be one of the first people to buy a camera like this!
Of course it’s junk, but let’s have our smart smurf have a moment of fun 🙂
If you say so, I’ll think this camera is crap…
I say you must hide under a bridge troll and spare us of your stupid comments!
I rather Pana concentrate & put everything to speed up the Organic element sensor with MCS before going into this one .
The sensor size is still wrong…
Stealing other’s names to spread your idiotice Vieze?
Another grossly wrong headline. That’s three separate sensors, as anyone can see, not a three-layer sensor, which would be one Foveon-like sensor…
Do you care how they do it?
Well there is difference: the camera with splitter prism won’t take normal lenses.
Thanks Hubertus! Big mistake of mine. It’s a three RGB sensor camera. not three Layer. Sorry, was a lapsus because I am also working on a layer sensor rumor 🙂
I see! Oh well, mistakes happen. By the way, “three RGB sensors” isn’t really true, either 😉 – it’s one R-only, one G-only and one B-only sensor…
Could just be an industrial camera.
No IBIS no buy☺
in my case its mostly: no money, cant buy
its too bad there is no monochrome sensor for MFT around, with a lower mp ,maybe it would be very interesting for landscape photographers too, and the iso performance would benefit too I think. As a persons photographer in BW mostly these days, I would also go for such. If it only could be done as easy as just doing a conversion in software, which is sofar the best way anyway.
3-sensor video cameras isn’t exactly new tech. What’s new about this could be that the three sensors are larger than the ordinary 2/3″ sensors used in cams like this $30 000 Sony: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554275-REG/Sony_PDW_700_PDW700_XDCAM_HD_2_3.html
Three tiny sensors LOL.
One tiny brain idiot LOL.
You? Your mother? Tell us crapchild.
So they have 3 times more area for light gathering, It’s 25% less area than FF.
> “But if that patented idea will ever make it into a real mass product is yet unclear.”
http://panasonic.net/avc/camcorder/features/3mos/
https://www.youtube.com/user/LowLightVideos
Wish they would work more on global shutter for usual m43 cameras, that would be something special.
A patent? Sony had that 20 years ago. LOL to crapasonic.
So great! I need mft photocam with three sensors 16-20MP