The camera industry needs to pull the plug on full frame cameras and lenses. And I want to help them do so. Real optics are on the way out – they’re on the way to become a niche for purists like vinyl. The full frame sensor, demanding the most expensive glass, is an albatross. It isn’t going to cut it 10 years from now. At the same time the smartphone form factor has peaked, it doesn’t compete with a mirrorless camera for physical controls, and it goes without saying that they lack the most fundamental features of a camera. Such as a viewfinder (EVF). I have had direct experience of over 340 cameras in my time as a filmmaker, photographer and reviewer at EOSHD and briefly DPReview. I have seen the writing on the wall for a while. AI, depth maps, lens arrays, and the ever-increasing capabilities of flagship 1″ sensors in smartphones. I am tired of a camera bag with £10,000 of fragile glass. The time has come for these to be entirely software rendered and AI generated. The look will be the same, the soul of a Canon Dream Lens will be implanted into the ROM of the camera. The flexibility will be much greater – changing the F-stop afterwards just one example. But before you say well “smartphones already do this” – no. They are not proper dedicated cameras and never will be until they adopt the form factor of one. That’s why the future is...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Friday, 2 August