Sony's curved sensors

Sony will be introducing new curved sensors for improved image quality, and much better noise control. It's just got me thinking about Canon's innovation or lack of....

http://www.digitaltren​ds.com …ard-image-quality/#!5stXj

The biggest benefit will much less glass needed for the lenses.

I'm sure that I'm visualizing it in overly-simplistic terms, but why wouldn't the desired amount of curvature vary from lens to lens?

hw_ wrote in post #17000066
The biggest benefit will much less glass needed for the lenses.

Hopefully that equates to lighter and smaller lenses for 35mm sized sensors.

Who knows... maybe Canon can strike a deal with Sony?

This will be interesting to follow the development over the next few years. Maybe this would bring med format IQ to the 35mm platform?

this would make tilt shift lenses useless

Doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Even with Canons large range of lenses a lot of people want to use 3rd party lenses and it seems like this would make that impossible.

Seems like a good idea on paper, not sure it will take off, especially if it only gets used in Sony cameras.

WhyFi wrote in post #17000074
I'm sure that I'm visualizing it in overly-simplistic terms, but why wouldn't the desired amount of curvature vary from lens?

If used in an interchangeable lens camera, every lens would have to be designed to have the same curvature. Er, just like today. This might be useful in a fixed- lens camera though, as it would simplify the lens design somewhat.

GregDunn wrote in post #17000509
If used in an interchangeable lens camera, every lens would have to be designed to have the same curvature. Er, just like today. This might be useful in a fixed- lens camera though, as it would simplify the lens design somewhat.

I agree. I see the point and shoot/Phone market grabbing these up and giving you better imaging quality @ a drastically reduced effort. IE creating a f1.8 for a phone with simple fixed parameters, and a curved sensor taking low light to new levels on the next generations.

It'd be of very limited use for any kind of interchangeable-lens system - all the lenses would need to have the same curvature, all sensors would have to be built to the same curvature, and tilt-shift functions would be unuseable. Third-party lenses would also be unuseable.

The question remains will this force everyone to new lenses in order to take all the benefits of these new sensors or the usage can be achieved with current lenses.
I can't imagine how everyone are going to replace them glass (especially people with several thousands per single glass) for this.
But at least it will make a 800mm affordable all of a sudden

Eyal wrote in post #17000891
The question remains will this force everyone to new lenses in order to take all the benefits of these new sensors or the usage can be achieved with current lenses.
I can't imagine how everyone are going to replace them glass (especially people with several thousands per single glass) for this.
But at least it will make a 800mm affordable all of a sudden

Current lenses won't work, because they're designed to project a flat focal plane. Use them on a curved sensor and you'll get a ring of sharp focus, with everything inside or outside that ring out of focus. The same would apply if you used a lens with a curved focal plane, whose curve did not exactly match that of the sensor.

Could be good, could be one more thing to decenter, for those who worry about that.

Finally....
Seems at least seems some engineers thought clear, smart and closer look to real world Just to see how the best know camera to us is made up: I am talking of "Eyes"!
Wouldn't it be good for these math genus guys to take some anatomy classes too? We might have as well had this sensor long long time back.