Canon and Toshiba patented a special curved sensor design

Years ago Sony patented a Full Frame curved sensor design for a fixed lens camera. They yet have to unveil such a product but in the meantime Toshiba and Canon patented such designs too:

The Toshiba patent looks like this:

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The Canon patent proposes two variations. A fully curved sensor and a sensor flat in the center and curved on the edge:

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A fully curved sensor would require the launch of a completely new system camera as the lenses would have to be redesigned. While the Canon sensor design with flat center and curved edges might work with current lens designs too.

The five new IBERIT lenses for Sony E, Fuji X Leica SL and M will ship in December

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Kipon and Handevision jointly developed five new lenses for the Sony E,  Fuji X Leica SL and M system. These lenses will start shippin in December:

Shanghai, Nov 29,2016. Handevision will begin shipping its new IBERIT series of full frame lenses of 24mm/35mm/50mm/75mm focal lengths with constant aperture f2.4 from the beginning of Dec.This collection are designed for SONY E mount, Leica SL mount, Fuji X mount, also Leica M rangefinder version. The 90mm/f2.4 lens will ship in January 2017.
This series are jointly developed by camera adapter specialist at KIPON and German lens manufacture IB/E OPTICS GmbH . The development endeavor has lasted a year and half before it’s final release. This series now come in four colors choices in response to market demand. Followers and fans are now able to choose to suit their personal preference.

Curiosity: Sensor improved by 1,5 stops only in 10 years development

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DxO shared this very interesting graph. it shows:

  1. The CMOS sensor quality improvement is of 1,5 stops in 10 years
  2. The real agin during the last 10 years has been achieved though digital processing (+3 or even +4 stops)

Software improvement has been at least twice as effective as hardware improvements….

Billy Luong and Makoto Oishi of Fuji: “future smaller GFX body is possible”

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Luminous Landscape interviewed Billy Luong and Makoto Oishi of Fuji. Here are some key info:

  • The focal plane shutter design allows the GFX to be expandable. So the current lenses, whatever sensor technology comes down the road, will still be capable and that’s one of the key benefits of going with the focal plane shutter
  • Fujifilm is already talking with Adobe for support and that adapters are possible, even for leaf shutter lenses, made by Fujifilm or third-party manufacturers.
  • In future Fuji may also smaller GFX bodies