Of the Future: Canon’s Wonder Camera

Focusing on the green technology, the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai which runs until October has a theme of urban living — Better City, Better Life. One of the product shown at this event is Canon’s “Wonder Camera Concept” which is entirely new — the camera of the future.

Photo by Mike Hanlon

Photo by Mike Hanlon

The Wonder Camera is Canon’s vision which is clearly a consumer-level camera being visualized two decades from now on. Still image and video imaging are combined; with such massive resolution, you can simply pick out the exact still image you want at any time, because Canon claims to have a proprietary technology that enables everything in every frame to be in focus at all times.

As Mike Hanlon visited the event, he explains that despite spectacularly long zoom lens images –maybe 3000 mm to 5000 mm– which were being demonstrated, the images on the screen of the Wonder Camera are very stable. With video capturing, everything is in perfect focus. He says that if the algorithms capture perfectly exposed images in perfect resolution at all times, then every frame of every video will contain countless perfect still images.

Photo by Mike Hanlon

Photo by Mike Hanlon

“Though very little information and no specification has been revealed, the Wonder Camera offers both still image and video imaging combined in a unibody form factor around the size of a digital SLR. It shoots at massive resolution with a single zoom lens which caters for all circumstances, from macro to megazoom,” Hanlon writes.

What is more, this camera is also networked and capable of high wireless speed. Its intelligent post-production and high-speed networking capabilities tending towards the capabilities of an outside television broadcast van.

The video below will give you a slight impression on the camera:

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