The people of vloggers represent a potentially very interesting market for companies engaged in the creation of cameras and camcorders: if mostly video content on YouTube o TikTok are made using a smartphone, those who want to make a real leap in quality are often oriented towards the purchase of specialized equipment.

To capture the needs of vloggers, however, something is needed that together with high video quality (not only in terms of image quality, but also of expressive capabilities that can only arise from a direct control over parameters such as aperture and shutter speeds) also accompany a certain handling.

Sony with its A7C it was the first to put forward a full-frame mirrorless proposal expressly for vloggers, taking the good things done with Sony A7III and condensing it into a compact body with articulated display. This is something quite unprecedented in the panorama of full-frame mirrorless and that goes to attack an audience that, we are sure, other brands will not want to miss.

Canon thinks of vloggers with a camera-gimbal

A patent filed by Canon that outlines a device that winks conspicuously at vloggers but with a completely different setting to that of Sony A7C and very similar to something we have already seen in other forms. In practice it is a sort of gimbal-cam conceptually similar to DJI’s Osmo solutions , but with the possibility of changing the lenses. We can therefore think of a sort of hybrid between a mobile Osmo and a gimbal for traditional cameras. Or maybe something close to Zenmuse solutions, also from DJI.

In the patent drawing you can also see the presence of a hot-shoe for accessories such as flash, which, however, would hinder the proper functioning of the gyroscope-based stabilization system. From this point of view, moreover, also the possible use of lenses seems to be somewhat limited: one thing is to manage standard and relatively light focal lengths, another matter is the use of more massive optics. The particular camera would also seem to have a display, which however seems to be constrained and not rotatable which results in the impossibility of being able to see yourself while you are shooting.

Before letting go of enthusiasm or, on the contrary, easy mockery, it is good to remember that a patent does not necessarily indicate a product that will arrive on the market and that Canon, like many other large companies, exploits the patent mechanism to protect intellectual property even without a concrete desire to translate a concept into reality.