Olympus filed a patent in Japan (2011-259166) for a vari-angle LCD screen that can be flipped to pretty much any camera side/angle:
In addition to the US patent for an organic sensor, Fujifilm filed a similar patent in Japan (2011-253861). Here are some more details from the Japanese patent application (Google translation):
As a solid state image pickup device, a photoelectric conversion part is arranged in two dimensions in a semiconductor, it is considered as a pixel, and the flat-surface type photo detector which performs charge transfer and read-out by the CCD circuit or a CMOS circuit is widely used in the signal generated by photoelectric conversion in each pixel. That in which the photodiode part to which the PN junction was generally used for the conventional photoelectric conversion part into semiconductors, such as Si, was formed is used.
In recent years, while multi pixel-ization progresses, pixel size is small, the area of a photodiode part becomes small, and the sensitivity lowering which is decline in a numerical aperture, the decline in condensing efficiency, and its result has been problem. The solid state image pickup device which has the organic photoelectric conversion layer using the organic material as the technique of raising a numerical aperture etc. is examined.
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Hmm…the Olympus patent sure looks like a medium format camera, especially with that viewfinder attachment. Interesting!
well, if Olympus will make this camera True, I am in. Even if the sensor is a “simple” 24 X 24mm or another larger 4/3. (love this ratio, like 6×7)
They know how to make tack sharp stellar optics.
Lenses have more resolution as their image circle becomes smaller. So it’s a physics thing and I wouldn’t give Olympus all the credit.
But the problem is the Olympus (FourThirds) lenses need to be sharper in order to be comparable. And they’re no match for the better FF lenses.
finally, a hasselblad-ish digital camera. but where’s the folding hood?
hasselblad makes digital cameras and phase one makes digital backs for hasselblads…..? what do you mean, finally?
“hasselblad-ish”
emphasis on the ish. the h-series is a fuji design and definitely not hasselblad-ish.
anyhow, it’s about time that camera companies embrace lcds (and i don’t mean evfs). i want a big lcd with removable folding waist-level finder, chimney finder, and eye-level finder, just like the old hassys, rolleis, etc.
I missed Admin’s November article which stated this about Fujifilm’s Japanese patent regarding an organic photo sensor:
“An object of the present invention is to provide an organic photoelectric conversion layer exhibiting high photoelectric conversion efficiency, low dark current and high-speed responsivity, and a photoelectric conversion element and a solid-state imaging device each using the layer.”
If they believe that they can significantly improve the noise and high speed responsiveness of their BSI CMOS sensor then they will be the maker to watch in the coming year or two.
Damn, I was thinking about that vari-angle LCD last 2 nights and they already patented it! Guess what, I was thinking about medium format design and where an LCD should be placed. So I think this patent is for MF camera.
Maybe you saw this?
http://photorumors.com/2011/05/18/samsung-working-on-a-medium-format-digital-camera-system/
Yes, but Samsung and Olympus? They have never done anything together.
Oooooh i see it now, that round thing is a turntable. That is good stuff !
interesting what the next few years will bring and what we will be shooting with in the near future, just look around you and look at what you didnt have 5 to 10 years ago
technology is amazing as are the people designing these things
many thanks