Canon has filed a patent application for what has to be one of the most interesting camera designs we’ve ever seen. Japanese patent application number 2020–009307 details the schematics for a camera system that has a cutout through the middle to provide better grip, particularly for when switching between horizontal and vertical shooting.

According to the patent text, the purpose of this novel cutaway design is to ‘ensure good gripping performance at both of the horizontal and vertical imaging positions, and to eliminate the possibility of removing the imaging device when changing the imaging position from the vertical position to the horizontal position or from the horizontal position to the vertical position.’
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