Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Can you sat HDR? Well here's the design I have been waiting to come up from Canon's back rooms. It's about 5 years, I'd imagine since a company in Northern California established a consortium of MFRS with interest in a low-cost advanced CMOS sensor with each individual pixel having its own A-D converter and being addressed separately. There's a lot of valuable consequences to this design being actually incorporated into a camera. For one there's improved object recognition but more important for us is high dynamic range.
"The present invention is directed to an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method which are capable of appropriately expanding the dynamic range of an image sensor.
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According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, preliminary image capturing is performed using the image capturing unit, and the exposure time is assigned to each pixel based on the result of the preliminary image capturing. Image capturing can thus be performed with a wide dynamic range without a loss of highlight detail and a loss of shadow detail. – USPTO Appl. No. 12/630,594, ¶¶ 11 & 14
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So canon, when will we see it in a new body. How about a 1Ds Mark IV? Imagine, 35 MP and high dynamic range!
But do we have the lenses?
Asher
"The present invention is directed to an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method which are capable of appropriately expanding the dynamic range of an image sensor.
. . . .
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, preliminary image capturing is performed using the image capturing unit, and the exposure time is assigned to each pixel based on the result of the preliminary image capturing. Image capturing can thus be performed with a wide dynamic range without a loss of highlight detail and a loss of shadow detail. – USPTO Appl. No. 12/630,594, ¶¶ 11 & 14
Read more here
So canon, when will we see it in a new body. How about a 1Ds Mark IV? Imagine, 35 MP and high dynamic range!
But do we have the lenses?
Asher