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Canon SLR with a flip-around display

Started Jan 2, 2006 | Discussions thread
mamallama
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Re: Canon SLR with a flip-around display

Yes. Too much to ask at this time. It's impossible with the flipping mirror design because the light path is diverted to the OVF and only available to the CMOS sensor during exposure. Moreover even if you got rid of the reflexing mirror and let the light go directly to the sensor during composing, the current Canon CMOS sensors could not feed a live signal to an LCD. You would need a CCD or a CMOS sensor like the one in the Sony R1 to get a live output to an LCD.

TimK. wrote:

I might consider getting an SLR camera if Canon made one with a
flip-around display in the back. What's the deal? Is a
flip-around display on an SLR too much to ask?

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