Art Lebedev Teases "Fleximus" Flexible Tube Camera

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Art Lebedev has teased a new, flexible digital camera concept called the “Fleximus”.  Lebedev, the designer of the famed Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard, created this goose neck digital camera to provide greater reach and flexibility to digital photographers.

The business-end of the Fleximus camera houses the unit’s lens and sensor, while the opposite end of the goose neck unit has a small eyepiece viewfinder.  That eyepiece connects to a larger control unit with an LCD screen and functionality that will be a little more familiar to digital photographers.  It’s likely that most digital camera owners have foregone the viewfinder for the LCD display when framing an image, so the Fleximus LCD unit will make the jump more comfortable for most.

Art Lebedev’s Fleximus camera is part of a new trend in digital camera concept design.  While modern digital cameras retain the shape of their 35mm predecessors, the lack of a film roll provides greater design flexibility that has yet to be explored.  Is the box-and-cylinder shape of the digital SLR camera a necessity, or can the lens, sensor and storage unit be moved around and experimented with?  Art Lebedev’s Fleximus camera is no Optimus Maximus keyboard, but it is an interesting concept that could signal greater developments in production cameras in the near future.