Future Canon Cameras Might Come With a Shutter Touchpad

Every bit technology improved over the years, we take seen cameras evolve from traditional to DSLR and now mirrorless cameras. Notwithstanding, one element of the photographic camera that hasn't inverse in all these years is the shutter button. Then, Canon is now thinking of replacing the physical shutter button with a high-tech shutter touchpad.

The Japan-based camera-maker recently filed a new patent detailing a unique touchpad that could supercede the physical shutter button of a camera. This tiny touchpad will sit in the traditional place of a shutter button and volition be able to detect finger movements and force per unit area.

Canon replace shutter button with shutter touchpad

Now, every bit per the patent, the shutter touchpad will detect various finger movements of the photographer while capturing a scene. Equally a result, this could allow the lensman to change camera settings similar ISO, shutter speed, or aperture without needing to elevator the finger from the shutter area.

The shutter touchpad, according to the patent, will also be able to detect the elapsing and the force of the pressure applied. So, a lensman volition be able to half-press the shutter touchpad to set up focus and so press a bit harder to release the shutter.

Canon replace shutter button with shutter touchpad

Moreover, as this touchpad could exist integrated into the camera without needing to put a pigsty in place of the shutter button, it will meliorate a photographic camera's immovability.

So, the thought of a pressure-sensitive touchpad instead of a physical shutter button is pretty cool and futuristic. However, there are photographers who prefer the experience of pressing the physical shutter button to capture the desired moment.

Even so, I, personally, would honey to see a shutter touchpad instead of a physical button in futurity cameras. And if Canon makes this patent a reality in the coming days, it would completely change the fashion nosotros click pictures.