Canon Wonder Camera : No more changing lenses, and says no more photography.

  

You must have seen all those digital cameras with those large lenses in front. These high quality SLR and DSLR cameras make use of large lenses for ultra long range photos or super close up photos, aving the need to use different lenses for different types of photography.

Well, Canon has laid out a  multiple lens free future for photography, thanks to the Wonder Camera Concept.

According to Canon, about 20 years in the future, they are confident they can bring out a single lens camera to do the trick. According to them, this non-interchangeable single lens could be used for super close up macro photos or for long range photos.

The concept camera that Canon showed off in the Shanghai Expo 2010, boasts an extremely high resolution sensor, very high zoom range, and advanced image stabilization mechanism, making shooting at high zoom levels possible. It also has a knob less, full touch screen back interface. All this is apparently small enough to be comfortable in our hands.

The most important of all is that, this will be a video only camera. The idea is that, with ultra high resolutions available even on video modes, now you dont have to wait for a perfect moment and click a snap. Just shoot a video and from the frames of the video select the best. The high resolution makes capturing images from video frames possible. And there is no need to worry about the images being out of focus, because they claim that the wonder camera can keep everything on the scene in focus, leading to better extracted photos.

Even if twenty years may seem a short time, to some people, for such a radical development, considering the rate of development in the past few years, it must be possible for such an advancement to take place.

Check out the presentation video of the Canon Wonder Camera at the Shanghai Expo 2010 :