Nikon New Patent - Movable Half-mirror SLR

Nikon New design to get the best of both worlds.

Patent Details

• Patent Publication No. 2011-28177
  • published 2011/02/10
  • filled 2009/07/29
• The half-mirror
  • The part of divided light is for the OVF
  • The another light is for the imager
  • It generates ghosts
• The mode of single capture
  • The photographer decides composition in OVF or back-LCD
  • At the exposure
    • The mirror is up
    • It closes the finder eye piece to prevent the reverse incidence
• The mode of continuous capture
  • The photographer decides composition in OVF or back-LCD
  • At the exposure
    • The mirror is not up
    • The half-mirror decreases a picture quality
    • It revives a picture quality by image processing
    • The photographer can use the OVF for the whole continuous capture
• The mode of movie type1
  • The mirror is up
  • It closes the finder eye piece to prevent the reverse incidence
  • The photographer decides composition in back-LCD only
  • The photographer can use the function of AF for the whole movie capture
• The mode of movie type2
  • The mirror is not up
  • The photographer decides composition in OVF or back-LCD
  • The photographer can use the function of AF for the whole movie capture
  • The half-mirror decreases a picture quality
  • It revives a picture quality by image processing
  • The photographer can use the OVF for the whole continuous capture

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