BenQ's new 6 megapixel DC-E600 with "Lens-Eye"
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 15th 2006 4:30PM
posted Feb 15th 2006 4:30PM
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posted Feb 15th 2006 4:30PM
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Could it be that the lens rotates to take portrait or panoramic shots instead of the user actually rotating the camera itself?
just because the lens rotates, doesn't mean the picture rotates making it a portrait shot. the sensor has to also rotate.
Might be a (ultra or not) wide-lens, to let you take panoramic shots?
If the lens elements rotate, for example from the left side to the right side, it would allow for panoramic images to be stitched together without the need for special software or algorithms.
The camera would basically have a built in 'shift' lens.
Not sure if this is what it's doing, but it kind of looks like it.
Its apparent that it shoots at a slightly awkward angle to catch people by surprise, and after its done taking the picture, it begins to spin incessantly, emitting 1.21 gigawatts of electricity, thus transporting you back in time to prevent you from taking bad photos to begin with.
Didn't you heared about the Lens that focus not by changing position but by put some electricity on it, that makes oil liquid bent different. And makes the light enter different in you cam
Sounds like a device for making stereoscopic images.
It looks to me like a ultra magnification lens system, with light going in through the bottom of lens to back of camera then that image bounces off mirror to front of protruding housing then back to CCD.
This would enable the camera to get (uneducated guess!) double magnification while halving the size of the stick out lens area.
Till later,
Da Masta Of Go Fasta
yeauh...w/e that means but I think the dual, cytoplasmic rays can be sent via wifi to the sun distorting the suns level of intensity so the light won't be as noticable..so basically it has a built in sunblock, as for the lens its probably a shifting tubular-like bacteriaphage with approx 2million nanobots located inside it organized into thyroids.
because of the rotating eye, you could in theory take a image, then rotate the lens 180 degrees and take another, and fuse the two images to make a 3D image.
"Whats with all these point and shoot cameras with no viewfinder? Makes the camera absolutely worthless in bright light."
Incorrect. Current LCD's are much improved and while they aren't perfect under direct sunlight they are definately useable. all the information is readable, the subject you're trying to photograph is clear. My 3 year old Canon A80 LCD is horrible under direct sunlight but all these current cameras from Olympus, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Etc. are all decent.
It is just a fancy way to have the lens cover built into the camera, so it rotates closed, and it protects the lens.
It couldnt be for 3d image for a 3d to work it has to be shot as so c= camera i= image... 180 would just make the picture be upside down...
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I believe the thing is just like the user said "It is just a fancy way to have the lens cover built into the camera, so it rotates closed, and it protects the lens."
I would guess that the camera actually has two lenses, rotating the front section reveals the other lens and hides the first. One would be for extreme macro or zoom etc... whilst the other would be for wide angle.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Olympus/oly_d630z.asp
Look familiar?
This looks like a Sony N1 knockoff!
Two other ideas: 1) if I were to name something 'eye' in a camera I would make it related to red eye. Perhaps it moves off axis when it sences that it is going to get red dots. 2) A while back there was a story about being able to take a new type of photo that could audjust focus post facto. I'd expect that to be in a SLR first and $$$ but you never know.
"If the lens elements rotate, for example from the left side to the right side, it would allow for panoramic images to be stitched together without the need for special software or algorithms."
wow, that's just not true at all. how could you take a panoramic shot with a lens that shifts a whole half inch from one side to the other? you can try this with a regular camera, take a picture, then step a whole half inch to the right, then take another picture. stich these together and you get......a completely normal picture, the two pics would look pretty much identical.
Actually rotating lenses (split lenses) have been used for (film) panoramic capture in the past - although they required a curved piece of film and a 'slit' which tracked across it as the lens moved. I would guess this is the same idea, simply exposing the CCD one row at a time as the lens moves. Likely to offer around 130-160 degree view
Reasonably clever idea but probably not any better than a typical photo-stitch.
By the way, Klunkers, the lens you describe is essentially a Reflex lens - the theory is good but images suffer from some distinct characteristics which would make it unsuitable for general use.
"while they aren't perfect under direct sunlight they are definately useable"
Direct sunlight is also bright light, which is what the original poster said. If I can't use the LCD outside, then it does become useless. I have to agree with him, I'd much prefer a viewfinder to using the screen any day.
I agree completely. This camera is useless!!! I went on holiday and half the pics i took came completely black. I might as well throw it away. What is the use of having a camera where you cant take a pic outside
how do i rotate the lens eye?