That’s quite a futuristic approach: Canon patented a sensor that can be bended to become curved. But why does this make sense? Well all current Canon lenses are designed for flat sensors. They wouldn’t work on a curved sensor camera. If you have a sensor capable of being both flat and curved you can solve that issue. If you attach one of the current EF lenses the sensor gets flat. At the same time if Canon would release a new lens designed for curved sensor it would work on the same camera too.

Lenses designed for curved sensors have multiple advantages:
– At same aperture the lenses designed for curved sensors will be much smaller than “normal” lenses
– At same size the lenses designed for curved sensors will be much faster than “normal” lenses
– Lenses designed for curved sensor can bring you 100% corner to corner sharpness.

Will that patent ever make it into a real Canon camera? I doubt it…it sounds way too costly :)

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Patent found via Egami

Adobe added the official support on plenty of new mirrorless cameras:

• Canon EOS M5
• Fujifilm X-A3
• Google Pixel
• Google Pixel XL
• Hasselblad X1D
• Leica TL
• Olympus E-M1 Mark II (*)
• Olympus PEN E-PL8
• Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ2500 (DMC-FZ2000 and DMC-FZH1)
• Samsung Galaxy S7
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
• Sony Alpha a6500 (ILCE­-6500)
• Sony DSC-RX100 Mark V

What a bummer! The Hasselblad X1D will now start to ship out on February 2017 only(!) according to BHphoto (Click here). The camera was originally supposed to start shipping out in late August. That’s a six month delay!!!

UPDATE: Small good news: At GetDPI Hasselblad officially stated this:

“Hi guys,
Our previous communication here is still very valid and we are fully committed to start fulfilling end-user orders this month. Unfortunately, we will not be able to fulfil all the backorders this year, but we are doing all we can to ship out as many X1Ds as possible.
We will communicate more firm dates and volumes shortly. We kindly ask you for your patience.
// The Hasselblad Team”

So it seem the new February date reported by BHphoto is for NEW orders only.

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We got some news to report about the two High End MFT cameras:

Olympus E-M1II:
Despite US stores like BHphoto, Amazon, GetOlympus and Adorama saying the E-m1II will ship next week Olympus Japan said shipment start is December 22.

Panasonic GH5
The GH5 is rumored to start shipping out in April 2017. And there are somew good news to report:

• GH5 has on sensor stabilization.
• 2 SD slots for the GH5.
• No more limit about the duration of recording. 29 minutes in Europe.
• The audio XLR microphone hotshoe mounted I/O interface will be compatible with the DMC-GH4.
• The main sizes are identical of the GH4. Advantage : You can use ANY same accessory like Cage, Etc. from your previous GH3 or GH4.

The 45 megapixel Foveon APS-H camera was announced in February ans since then we didn’t hear about it anymore. Today Sigma Japan finally dais it will start shipping the new SD Quattro H on December 20 for a price around 140,000 YEN. There is no word yet about the shipment start and price in other countries. So far BHphoto (Click here) has listed the camera with no preorder option.

The Sigma SD Quattro H specs: