Rumors are once again circulating that Canon is developing a global shutter. As pure resolution and dynamic range specs hit their upper limit of usability, it's natural for camera manufacturers to put their energy into other arenas, and Canon Watch reports that Canon is focusing that energy on designing a global shutter sensor that we might see in mirrorless models in the near future. As one of the standout features of the RED Komodo is the global shutter, it makes sense that we see competitors also investigate bringing this feature to the affordable cinema space. What is a global shutter, you might ask? We've written about it a bunch over the years, but the simplest explanation is that a rolling shutter exposes the top part of the image first, then one line at a time goes through and exposes each line of pixels sequentially. It "rolls" through them. This is fine if there isn't much movement, but with a lot of movement, objects can sometimes be in different places by the time the exposure gets to them, causing rolling shutter artifacts. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 22 October, 2020