lordtangent
09-20-2008, 05:21 PM
I was thinking about this more last week at work between test renders and it dawned on me just how cool a spinning shutter would be.
It would turn the entire SLR model on it's head and allow for a very slick movie capture mode at the same time.
The massive improvement over the standard SLR would be the loss of the loud "Ca-Chunk" mirror noise with every shot. But "mirror lock up" and "Live View" type features could still work just fine.
And of course for shooting movies it would allow the camera to operate just like a real movie camera, with true though the lens viewing while shooting.
The real trick would be getting a spinning mirror type shutter into a form factor that isn't too huge. But just imagining the thing and doing some sketches, I noticed that it COULD fit in a camera that is the size of a regular pro SLR with a battery/portrait grip. The bottom edge of the mirror could sick out into the area of the "grip" and not make the body too huge or awkward.
If the camera took off-the-shelf Canon (my vote!) and Nikon lenses what you would be looking at would be nothing short of revolutionary.
It would turn the entire SLR model on it's head and allow for a very slick movie capture mode at the same time.
The massive improvement over the standard SLR would be the loss of the loud "Ca-Chunk" mirror noise with every shot. But "mirror lock up" and "Live View" type features could still work just fine.
And of course for shooting movies it would allow the camera to operate just like a real movie camera, with true though the lens viewing while shooting.
The real trick would be getting a spinning mirror type shutter into a form factor that isn't too huge. But just imagining the thing and doing some sketches, I noticed that it COULD fit in a camera that is the size of a regular pro SLR with a battery/portrait grip. The bottom edge of the mirror could sick out into the area of the "grip" and not make the body too huge or awkward.
If the camera took off-the-shelf Canon (my vote!) and Nikon lenses what you would be looking at would be nothing short of revolutionary.