Canon has recently announced that it will be using Intel’s new Thunderbolt in its upcoming camera models, so we can expect to see Thunderbolt in future DSLR’s and consumer-grade cameras. I, for one, find this extremely exciting, since it means that companies are adopting this for more than just professional and enterprise-level storage. Perhaps we’ll see a true consumer base pop up for Thunderbolt as well.
Intel’s new Thunderbolt technology offers data transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, and this would be a great addition to Canon cameras it would make things so much faster when transferring photos and video from your camera to your PC or Mac.
Hiroo Edakubo, Group Executive of Canon’s Video Products Group stated, “We are excited about Thunderbolt technology and feel it will bring new levels of performance and simplicity to the video creation market.”
Canon have not given any dates on when they will start to Intel’s Thunderbolt technology into their cameras, but we suspect we will see some models later this year which use Intel’s Thunderbolt.
Via Geeky Gadgets
