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03/06/2007 07:50:09 AM · #26 |
It is certainly all speculation, because technology is exponetial at times rather than mathematical/ that being said; what about medical technology and military technology?
Perhaps we will have EXTREME zooms, x-ray, infra-red and ultraviolet cameras that are just outrageous- and you think photoshop is good now- wait until you see photoshop professional edition 247.2;
I anticipate that a video camera with an otrageous amount of megapixels would be the future. All you would do is whip it out, film a scene, and go back home to have an infinite amount of crops, angles, and perhaps video raw technology, so you can expose it anyway you want.
But all this is talk; why couldn't a video camera look like a classic Nikon F5? or a rangefinder; With a retro look and feel like that, who would mind taking stills with a video camera- if there are still things to take pictures of in 2050... |
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03/06/2007 08:15:03 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by crayon:
2. bodies would have swap-able sensors - ultimately a standard/guideline was invented where all the manufacturers adhere to, and designed their sensors with common connection placements, much like how you can change microprocessors on different motherboards.
3. digital crop factor would have surpassed 35mm film. we'd probably be looking at 0.5x (135mm equivalent)
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We've kinda surpased this i guess we are going back? I gues you didnt get a chance to work with 35mm Digital Backs.
Digital crop factor has exceeded 35mm its called medium format digital. And before someone says in a small format camera... its no longer small format once the sensor has gotten that large.
Message edited by author 2007-03-06 08:19:50. |
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03/06/2007 08:22:06 AM · #28 |
| I think all you will have to do is point the camera at something and say 'see that tree over there? Well I want a dead good picture of it, then blown up to fit that space in the downstairs cloakroom, framed and ready by the time I get home.............oh and a cup of tea would be nice.............cheers!!'. |
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03/06/2007 08:31:38 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Sweetlittlepixie:
I think all you will have to do is point the camera at something and say 'see that tree over there? Well I want a dead good picture of it, then blown up to fit that space in the downstairs cloakroom, framed and ready by the time I get home.............oh and a cup of tea would be nice.............cheers!!'. |
One can only hope around that time ill shoot a 7 lmao. |
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03/06/2007 09:10:39 AM · #30 |
I am thinking that possibly in the next generations of cameras, the sensor will be replaced with a ground glass or mirror, and the image read continuously by a scanner, much the way a blu ray or cd player works. Shutter activation would consist of just sampling the scan, and shutter speed would be sampling consecutive scans.
With optics, the viewfinder would be set up to show what's on the ground glass or mirror. That would eliminate the shutter and mirror as well as the need for such a complex sensor.
Electronics are already fast enough to do this, and 3 scans would cover RG&B.
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03/06/2007 09:15:54 AM · #31 |
I read that list and it sounds like the Canon 1dIII right now.
Maybe in a year if it isn't quite there already.
I think you need to stretch a whole lot further to predict what camera technology will be like in 43 years time. |
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03/06/2007 10:25:57 AM · #32 |
Here's a link that just came in thru one of my tech newsletters.
Slow Light Imaging
Things are moving right along. The first lasers were the size of a car not so many years ago. |
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05/03/2007 07:43:23 AM · #33 |
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05/03/2007 08:11:18 AM · #34 |
The fast sensors will be here next year.
Sony is working on a 60fps 6mp sensor and a 180fps 2.8mp sensor. The 60fps version also has a lower res 300 fps function.
I personally think that within 10 years innovation in digital imaging will slow down. The development of the digital camera is at an end, the camera has matured.
At that point we will no longer have Bayer sensors, but every manufacturer will have full RGB capture for every photosite on the sensor. Standar for sensors will be somewhere between 25 and 35 megapixels for APS-C and 35mm sensors. High ISO noise will be non-existant, but you will not get a range from ISO 6 till ISO 16 million.
Optical viewfinders will not go away, nor will vibration reduction systems.
There might be a one-lens for all things for lazy consumers, but advanced amateurs and pro's will still have a wide range of lenses to choose from. The reason is that there is no way to build a 10-1000 f/2 lens (that you still can carry).
Improvements must be sought in framerates, AF performance, viewfinders, smart software corrections in the camera, huge internal buffers and busspeeds. Camera's will keep using external cards, because photographers will always fill their cards and will always want to exchange them while continuing shooting. It might move away from cards though and go to a kind of wireless system to a laptop or your own computer or a kind of private webspace wherever in the world it or you may be. Batterylife will improve, they will become smaller and they will load faster. Perhaps the batterygrips will become obsolete because your batteries will be as big as an SD card.
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05/03/2007 08:22:54 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I think that by 2050 you will be able to just scan your brain, and take whatever image that your eyes saw directly from there. |
Hehe, if this will be the case all my photos in 2050 will be of naked chicks :) |
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05/03/2007 08:57:43 AM · #36 |
| Something I've always thought of with digital cameras, how about smart sensors that can turn off individual photosites if that photosite reaches a user-predetirmined threshold so that it doesn't record any more information and highlights aren't over-exposed? No more need for graduated ND filters, and kind of like HDR built right into the camera. A photographer could easily input what amount of threshold they desire, or even turn it off completely. That would be cool. |
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05/03/2007 09:07:26 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Something I've always thought of with digital cameras, how about smart sensors that can turn off individual photosites if that photosite reaches a user-predetirmined threshold so that it doesn't record any more information and highlights aren't over-exposed? |
Something Canon is rumoured to work on, first heard it two years ago.
Must be some patent stuff available for it.
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05/03/2007 09:23:19 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Something Canon is rumoured to work on, first heard it two years ago.
Must be some patent stuff available for it. |
Dang, I thought I was on to something there. :-( I should've figured they'd already thought of it. |
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05/03/2007 09:33:13 AM · #39 |
by 2050 a new model will probably enter the market at around $10,000
11,000 if it has a diamond plated sensor. lol
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05/03/2007 09:53:25 AM · #40 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I think that by 2050 you will be able to just scan your brain, and take whatever image that your eyes saw directly from there. |
Yeah, but the lens system is crap. |
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05/03/2007 10:05:53 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by eamurdock:
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I think that by 2050 you will be able to just scan your brain, and take whatever image that your eyes saw directly from there. |
Yeah, but the lens system is crap. |
Carl Zeiss has the solution.
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05/03/2007 10:14:34 AM · #42 |
You guys with your 2d cameras. That's going to look pretty poor on my holographic display.
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05/03/2007 10:21:25 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by crayon:
in the not-so-far future, what do you think digicams will evolved to, and why do you think that? some of my personal guesses are:
1. image-stabilizers will be obsolete - because sensor technology would have increased to super low-noise even at ISO 6400 that you can possibly capture anything without worrying about handshake/subject movement
2. bodies would have swap-able sensors - ultimately a standard/guideline was invented where all the manufacturers adhere to, and designed their sensors with common connection placements, much like how you can change microprocessors on different motherboards.
3. digital crop factor would have surpassed 35mm film. we'd probably be looking at 0.5x (135mm equivalent)
4. electronic shutter going mainstream - mechanical shutter would be replaced by highly versatile electronic shutter.
5. all cameras would have live preview - due to sensor technological enhancements |
Goodness gracious....I sure hope that this is NOT the camera of 2050. As most of these features are either present or nearly present in cameras today.
Okay, what I want to see in the 2050:
1) Liquid lenses that can range from 10mm ultra wide to 600mm+ (all with low f/stops
2) Laser based micro focus. Instead of seeing a little red box or few light up for focus. One would see a micro pixel lated image in which a detail depth of focus is shown in a 3D rendering over-lay.
3) Wireless data transport and storage to your personal data storage bank.
4) ISO ability will have increased to the point that one will be able to take sport shots at night and have them look like noiseless daytime photos. Vice-versa, one will be able to take daylight photos and have them appear dark as night shots.
5) Tripods and cameras will do away with connector plates. They will simply be flat pads that when placed will either connect and lock via bio-electrical chemical process.
6) Batteries will be replaced by powerful compact fuel cells.
Some will say that you could never build to these specs. That there is no way to have a 10-1000mm f/2 lens. But I disagree. I am sure that our 70-200mm f/2.8 zooms and 200mm f/1.8 primes were considered an impossibility in photography a 100 yrs ago.
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Of course, there is a second possibility...
The Camera of 2050 will be plant die scratched onto a stone wall of a cave. Depicting the start of WWIV. |
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05/03/2007 10:30:39 AM · #44 |
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Fisheye ΓΆ€“ 500 mm lens (apt 0.65)
ΓΆ€ΒΆ 32 mega full frame sensor (25 mega = 35 mm film negative)
ΓΆ€ΒΆ ISO Range ( 25 ΓΆ€“ 6400)
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Continues shooting and saving at 12 frames/ second
ΓΆ€ΒΆ 250 + GIGA storage
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Two types of sensor elements (to match the way the eye sees things if so desired)
ΓΆ€ΒΆ THE MIRROR MUST STAY WITH THE CLICK SOUND INCREASED
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Weight with above lens 450 grams about 1 pound
ΓΆ€ΒΆ 100% waterproof at 100 meters Depth.
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Dust free sensor technology
ΓΆ€ΒΆ G5 mobile technology to send any size photo anywhere.
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Price tag in the $700 range with the solar power element.
That is it.
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05/03/2007 11:29:18 AM · #45 |
| I believe by 2050 cameras will be like this. |
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05/03/2007 11:30:57 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by _eug:
I believe by 2050 cameras will be like this. |
I don't get it? |
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05/03/2007 11:43:59 AM · #47 |
Customizeable, build your own camera stuff, much like how you can build your own PC now. Buy it straight out of the box, swap out internal parts at will. Go to a site much like Dell to choose your options, manufacturer builds it, ships it out.
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05/03/2007 11:44:38 AM · #48 |
Originally posted by bdenny:
Originally posted by _eug:
I believe by 2050 cameras will be like this. |
I don't get it? |
The movie is about a device which is implanted into your body which records your entire life. The protagonist's job is to edit the result for viewing by friends, family, etc. |
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05/03/2007 12:38:43 PM · #49 |
| hmm....I'll have to check it out. Thanks :) That would be really awesome, btw. |
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05/03/2007 12:41:57 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by crayon:
in the not-so-far future, what do you think digicams will evolved to, ... |
The implication of your title is that we are speculating on the evolution of digital imaging to the year 2050; 43 years from now.
Did you know that the the technology for accessing the Internet through the World Wide Web which has completely changed the world as we know it, was invented by Tim Berners-Lee less than 16 years ago? Berners-Lee originally developed HTML to allow physicists at CERN to easily share technical papers. That technology was released into the public domain only 13 years ago. It was only after its release to the public domain that the Internet really took off.
13 years! Nobody in the world could have predicted this technical and social revolution. Given that, anyone think we could ever predict how digital imaging will evolve in 43 years?
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