Olympus claims to have the tech to definitely solve the rolling shutter issue forever. The simple “trick” is to use a global shutter system that reads out all pixels at the same time. That’s at least what they claim in their latest patent spotted by Egami.
Hope Olympus will use that on their new High End OMD!
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The simple “trick” is well known since ages. What is cheap the solution.
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Rah haha. Seriously though. This would put M43 in a fantastic position.
Oly could either step up its game with video or license the tech to pany who has already stepped. Though I’d love to see this tech and the lens stabilizer in the next EM5/EM1. Oly had the ergonomics and form factor I like. But mostly the built in IS.
Egami also found a patent from Panasonic for Global Shutters
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_-_The_exterior_(shutters).jpg
Nice choice, even though I like what’s in the front even better.
so simple no one done it yet in a consumer cam.
it feels to me that with the introduction of digital capturing, some people only focus on the problems introduced with it, and want a perfect solution for all of it.
One would think that sensor makers would have solved this problem by now. Obviously, it is not as straight forward as one would think.
Yes , that is the ultimate shutter that will rocked the digital photography world .
But never across my mind , it come from Olympus , it should from Pana , a true m4/3 innovator .
WOW!!! Why don’t you just parade into the room wearing nothing but your Fanbois Panties and heels?!?!
whats this fanboy thing lol. I realise some people prefer just one brand but what I see on this forum has taken grotesque proportions, ideal to crack down both camps.
It is really crazy, the m43 community is killing itself… Oo
Here here!
its a stupid thing for Yun to say…both manufacturers have come up with many great innovations.
It would be the high time to get rid of mechanical shutter at all.
Looks like Oly copied Sonys patent. Lol.
Hey Sony fanboy! If it’s a patent how can it be copied?
lol…
He’s just Vivezure, after all.
Hope they’re not passing this off as new tech.. Global shutter is ooooold. Companies just finally figured a way to use it with a CMOS sensors (thinking particularly Sony’s F55). Glad it’s coming to consumer tech at least!
Yes, old CCDs were all global, but CMOS sensors generally have better overall image quality, were much cheaper to make, and had less noise at high sensitivity. It’s been a long time ago, but I read a paper on why it was so hard to do global readout with a CMOS sensor, but it is very difficult and puts the cost per sensor back over what a CCD cost. And as you can see from the BMPCC(4K) low light suffers as does dynamic range. So it’s a tradeoff.
The issue must be tougher than anyone assumes as dumping all that data at once would probably require a lot of processing power… and while that is achievable in theory the ever increasing mp counts and pixel efficiency would , I imagine, make it a bit of a shifting target.
I should think that I/O, buffer, cache, load and heat tolerances, and heat dissipation are even bigger problems; if these problems were solved, processing would take care of itself.
🙂 Isnt that what I said? 🙂
All of this plays a part, I am not sure about heat dissipation as the speed they are already moving and the frame rates are already very high, I think it is mostly buffer cache, load I/O and processing… They could probably achieve it with a 12mp sensor at m43rds size with X Well Capacity, but they are always working on improving all these items and more…
Just a thought 🙂
i cant figure out why Olym interesting to incorporate this stuff in their gadget since video is something not their key business. but i hope it does really happen and pressure others such as sony for instance 🙂
Sony (and otheres) already have a sensor with global electronic shutter on the market for high end videocameras. Global electronic shutter have been around for ages, the problem (so far) is loss of IQ because the extra support electronics reduce the area of the sensor tha can be used for the pixels. Increased power consumption might also be a factor.
With BSI-CMOS process, all the extra electronics would be on the other side.
There are patents out there for perpetual motion machines. Just because you patent something doesn’t mean it’s real.
That being said, if this is real, it’s going to be incredible.
Perp motion patents Prooflink?
Wow! Who’d have thunk it that if you read out the whole sensor all at once, it gets rid of rolling shutter? Amazing! Gosh, so glad that Olympus are on the case, otherwise it could have been disaster! 😉
http://www.43rumors.com/global-shutter-samsung-will-do-it-olympus-also/
Yep! Oh and RIP K-rumors 🙂
I particularly like this one, how the GH3 is going to have a global shutter:
http://www.43rumors.com/the-next-big-feature-panasonic-and-olympus-working-on-global-shutter/
Gimme!
If more people realized what global shutter can do for you, that would be the most requested feature.
Interesting… When it’s in a TripD
Global shutters have been around for awhile. The problem is that they have a tendency to increase noise significantly (e.g. lower dynamic range).
I think this is a good reason to start marking 2 or more versions of high end camera models – (A7/A7R/A7S)… More or less common platforms that are tailored for different needs. General purpose, photography without filter and higher resolution, and videography versions.
Hope they introduce it soon or Im changing to samsung. If you have not tried the NX-system mechanical shutter you should. Its soft, low noise and DO NOT HAVE SHUTTER-SHOCK ISSUES!
You realize rolling-shutter and shutter shock are not the same thing right?
You’d better take a look at other ‘features’ such as the Samsung JPEG engine. They are years behind Oly and Fuji, in that area.
Earlier this year, some Olympus exec stated that they would start focusing on video quality with newer cameras. I wonder if this might be a step in that direction and possibly on cameras about to be announced.
You don’t need to read them out at the same time – you need to EXPOSE them at the same time, then read them out as fast as you can . . .
I can’t wait for that.
very good
so simple no one done it yet in a consumer cam.
http://ict3.com/