New Patent Brings Movie Mode to DSLRs

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The one feature point-and-shoots still have over DSLRs is the ability to shoot video clips. DSLRs are optimized in the other direction—the mirror setup, specialized auto-focus systems, etc. Hiroshi Terada’s patent for a movie mode on DSLRs has one big innovation—a semi-transparent mirror—and then pulls a PS2-on-PS3 emulation trick, cramming in the components necessary to shoot solid video alongside the DSLR’s regular components.
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3 Responses to “New Patent Brings Movie Mode to DSLRs”


  1. 2 idblogsaya February 18, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    huhu.. most of the new coming slr nowdays are equipt with video. as example canon 450d


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