Panasonic patents selective exposure compensation

By PR admin | Published: June 22, 2012

Panasonic filed a patent in Japan (2012114524) for selective exposure compensation: the exposure can be adjusted for every single line of pixels depending on the subject.

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  • Rob

    This is outstanding! Could you imagine a sensor that can automatically stop the exposure of a pixel before its clips out to white?

  • grnd

    would be nice for program-based gradient filters…

  • cool

    This is a great invention, I cannot wait for a camera with proper dynamic range.

  • http://www.lensporn.net lensporn.net

    I’ve been dreaming of something like this for years! Imagine what it could do for landscapes! This is still limited to a line at a time so you will still have the problem of darkening elements you don’t want to if they project into the zone that is being darkened like with nd grads such as trees and buildings but just to get the grad effect without filters and moving them up and down trying to get the damn transition in the right place would be a god send!

    • Harold Ellis

      it will make nature photos even more unnatural, that is what it will do.

      if actual dynamic range is not enough for you, then you are photoshoper and not photographer

      • http://www.lensporn.net lensporn

        What complete and utter nonsense!

        Just about every successful landscape photographer uses graduated filters to overcome the limited dynamic range of the camera be it digital or film, that has to be the most poorly informed comment I have ever read, you really have no idea what you are talking about whatsoever.

        Is Joe Cornish just a photoshopper? Jeremy Walker? Colin Prior? Ansel Adams used various techniques and chemicals in the darkroom to ensure the sky and foreground were both exposed, was he a photoshopper?

        And like it or not post processing has been a part of photography since the beginning be it in the darkroom or on a computer, you’re probably just one of those people who criticizes because they haven’t a clue how to use filters OR photoshop.

        ALL digital images require processing whether you realise that or not.

        Perhaps you are one of those smug types that shoots jpeg and claims the images are untouched? In actual fact you have just left the processing in the hands of the camera because you can’t do it yourself.

        Complete and utter ignorance.

        • You Again

          That’s because you don’t know Harold…if “Canon” came up with a patent for selective exposure compensation, it would be the greatest thing ever. But it’s been a long time since Canon came up with any new technology so…

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