Jon Stern

This is not surprising. These sensors have a quad pixel per color arrangement (imagine each pixel in the 2x2 Bayer filter pattern being divided in to 4 sub-pixels). When the full resolution is read...

Why did they add branches that blend in to her hair (and look a bit like spider's legs sticking out)?

It seems to be curvature of the mounting plane, not just parallax.

This patent seems to be for an array with each camera having a different FOV.

Quote translated from a German site: "The lenses are placed in a certain curvature within the matrix arrangement, so...

Yuck! A terrible example of an attempt to push super-resolution too far.

Dangerous to use in America. Particularly if you're not white.

I'm not joking either. Expect frightened calls to the police about someone with a gun prowling the neighborhood.

@peripheralfocus, I'm probably quite representative of Canon users in general! We try hard to ignore Nikon marketing.

Whoops! I completely misread that page. This makes more sense now.

However, I still question the business side of Nikon keeping this in house. Vertical integration can work well, up to the point...

@Barney, having worked extensively with Japanese companies, I disagree. They tend to stick with corporate traditions long after they provide a benefit.

The same sticking with it attitude can...

Thanks for the interesting tour.

I'm surprised to learn that Nikon manufactures their own glass, and I'm a little skeptical that it provides them with much benefit in 2018.

BobT3218 China has 647 billionaires (as of last year). That's 100 more than the USA.

I take it you've not worked with Chinese companies, nor traveled there and seen the personal wealth on display...

You're making a common mistake of collapsing any Chinese-based entity with China as a nation.

Xiaomi is a private company, not an arm of the Chinese government. While it's true that the division...

They had them at CES too.

(They had Joe McNally too, but he seemed to be real, and I didn't see him dance.)

As I wrote elsewhere:

Certainly does look like triple OIS, but a little bit more dissection would show for sure. OIS focus modules (VCMs) have eight electrical connections, instead of the usual...

@biza43, one thought: digital cameras have more controls than film cameras. Film cameras didn't have functions associated with reviewing images, plus a whole host of other user functions.

@Suntan, immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate that US-born citizens. The likely reason being they fear getting deported.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/trump-illegal-immigrants-crime.html

See this comment: https://www.dpreview.com/news/8199335773/leaked-gopro-to-reveal-entry-level-hero-action-cam-this-week-will-cost-200?comment=8367703520

No. I didn't hire them. You're going to laugh, but instead I hired someone from Juicero!

Although he was only there for 4 days before they shut down!

It's interesting that Raytrix GmbH, who have been around for years, without any of the Silicon Valley hype, continue to quietly exist. Selling plenoptic cameras for industrial use, to customers who...

From what I understand, most of their engineering staff were laid off a while ago. They built literally one copy of their cinema camera for rental, and then with no plans to scale from there, they...