After HD, what will he? The answer is already known: the 4K format already used in film. Canon has, at the Canon Expo, the first aircraft of this type, even if the rest of the way forward to integrate this technology into a camcorder.
The device resembles the natural son of an SLR and a hairdryer. In fact, technically, it is akin to a bridge high-end receives a small sensor size (2 / 3) 8MP, the same definition and the same size as on the Minolta A2 for example, and zoom 20x.
This is a piece a little cumbersome, but an unusual brightness in relation to its range: from 7 to 140 mm, it reaches f/1.8 at wide angle and yet to f/3.8 in telephoto . It would be equivalent to a 24x36 mm 24-480 by Canon, which requires a sensor slightly larger than the size 2 / 3 "standard (it takes a 12.6 mm sensor diagonal, instead of 11 mm, that the calculation just falls).
It is also the first time the red claw L, which traditionally marks the objectives for professional range of SLR, is used on a small sensor device since ... 2004, and Pro1 (thank you to the reader who reminded us of this reference). It is the sign of a neat goal, with two rings of control: housing side, a zoom ring (the latter is driven, ensuring smooth transitions), side sunshade, a ring focus (also motorized and highly multiplied, providing highly accurate adjustment).
4K = 8x the normal rate!
The 8MP sensor lets you capture videos 4K, including the precise format is not known (probably the "Quad HD" 3840 x 2160, 16 / 9: this was in any case the definition of monitor on which the flow was returned), at 60 frames per second.
This is not really what side of the sensor performance: we have already seen gusts up this rate on certain CDs. But the recording device then immobilized several seconds, while on the prototype treatment is continued.
So the electronics downstream of the sensor that impresses: it digests almost 500 MP every second. It is three times that manages the EOS 1D Mk IV in a gust to 10 fps, and eight times the throughput of the best compact current video (HD at 30 fps)!
Here, however, the stream is sent directly to an external box, located under the machine. There is also no trigger: the video is sent directly to the housing registration, and whoever wants to extract a photo directly from the film.
Taken in hand, the prototype is fairly well built, very large, of course, take into hands some ways reminiscent of formats. The top LCD panel is extremely thin, like the rest of the latest EOS SLR range, but unlike the Sony R1 does not swivel sideways: damage. The electronic viewfinder, for its part, is exemplary, with impressive size and impeccable precision, because they had not had to look hard to tell if it beats those SLR experts, but the competition is real.
This unit does not of course see the day in the state. It will begin to integrate its supply and its recording medium - probably a hard drive: We do not know of any memory card capable of providing sufficient flow. He also deserves some ergonomic adjustments: a hybrid device also deliberately photo-video, taken in hand less "reflective", why not with an adjustable handle, will be essential.
But no doubt that this super-bridge foreshadows what will be the technically high-end camcorders in the coming years.
