Panasonic applied for a new patent for Retractable Camera Grip, The new patent allows you to Simply rotate the LCD monitor 270 degrees.
Patent Details
Patent summary (translated from google)
- Patent Publication No. 2011-130146,2011-130147
- 2011.6.30 Release Date
- 2009.12.17 filing date
- Conventional movable monitor
- Many steps taken to transition from style to style the monitor housing
- Need to run multiple axes
- The center of the monitor, the optical axis is shifted
- The size of a conventional camera
- Poor portability when moving
- Shaped by T, because of the grip yet, bulky
- Portability is improved by removing the lens, and lens attached, how the time taken to
- Patent Technology
- Simply rotate the LCD monitor 270 degrees, can move from style to style store shooting
- The center of the monitor matches the center of the beam
- Moving diagonally grip
- When folded, not moving, the shape becomes elongated
- Shooting will be shaped in L, can be kept stable
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