Aware-2, New Gigapixel Camera
Jun 23, 2012 14:32:05 #
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/aware-2-new-gigapixel-camera-gigapan_n_1618879.html
An advanced camera powerful enough to shoot one billion pixels of still or video image is currently being tested at Duke University. Details of this research were released in the scientific journal Nature earlier this week.
This "supercamera," as Science Mag has labeled it, is actually composed of 98 smaller cameras that shoot at 14 megapixels and rest in a football-sized sphere. "Pixels are individual 'dots' of data," explains a press release for Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. "The higher the number of pixels, the better resolution of the image."
Pictures from the multiple cameras are then stitched together by image processing software on a computer connected to the sphere, creating one highly detailed image. According to the Wall Street Journal, these billion pixel shots generate photos with five times as much detail as what a person with 20/20 vision can see, and produce images 30 times better than the best SLR camera available on the market.
An advanced camera powerful enough to shoot one billion pixels of still or video image is currently being tested at Duke University. Details of this research were released in the scientific journal Nature earlier this week.
This "supercamera," as Science Mag has labeled it, is actually composed of 98 smaller cameras that shoot at 14 megapixels and rest in a football-sized sphere. "Pixels are individual 'dots' of data," explains a press release for Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. "The higher the number of pixels, the better resolution of the image."
Pictures from the multiple cameras are then stitched together by image processing software on a computer connected to the sphere, creating one highly detailed image. According to the Wall Street Journal, these billion pixel shots generate photos with five times as much detail as what a person with 20/20 vision can see, and produce images 30 times better than the best SLR camera available on the market.
Jun 23, 2012 16:17:40 #
RaydancePhoto wrote:
They'll have to hire a better stylist if they hope to sell them to the public. :D :D
Jun 24, 2012 10:11:31 #
What a fantastic camera? The story is great until I see that DARPA is funding the research. The camera is obviously intended for military use on satellites and aircraft. The next application worries me as I expect the next customers are security agencies and the police.
Jun 24, 2012 10:40:18 #
NatureFan wrote:
What a fantastic camera? The story is great until I see that DARPA is funding the research. The camera is obviously intended for military use on satellites and aircraft. The next application worries me as I expect the next customers are security agencies and the police.
And eventually we'll get a watered-down version.
Jun 24, 2012 11:29:22 #
It is a cool concept. Using say 10 10MP sensors stitched together would get fantastic resolution. Hard to imagine how it would work with one lens tho. Sensors with multi layers?
Jun 24, 2012 11:45:02 #
RaydancePhoto wrote:
It is a cool concept. Using say 10 10MP sensors stitched together would get fantastic resolution. Hard to imagine how it would work with one lens tho. Sensors with multi layers?
It's such a different type of system that I don't see it becoming popular very soon.
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