FilmmakerIQ.com: Tiny Camera Records Details of Scene without Losing Sight of the Big Picture

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Tiny Camera Records Details of Scene without Losing Sight of the Big Picture Sep 29th 2013, 09:00, by John P. Hess Using a new system of concentric lenses, researchers are building an ultrahigh resolution wide angle camera the size of a walnut that could be capable of pans and zooms with no moving parts. Those days of CSI shows where photos are zoomed in infinitely and enhanced may soon be a reality. Top, image shot with a 5d mkIII conventional wideangle lens. Bottom shows the monocentric lens. To capture all the details of a crime scene, you might take many photos at close range. To get the whole scene at once, you could use a wide-angle or fisheye lens; but without an especially large lens you would be sacrificing the fine resolution that would help you catch that partial footprint you might otherwise have missed. Now a new type of miniature camera system promises to give users a big picture view without sacrificing high-resolution. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego will describe their novel device at The Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013, taking place Oct. 6-10 in Orlando, Fla. The new imager achieves the optical performance of a full-size wide-angle lens in a device less than one-tenth of the volume. It has a 100x range of focus, meaning it can image anything between half a meter and 500 meters away, and it has 0.2-milliradian resolution, equivalent to 20/10 human vision. Such a system could enable high-resolution imaging in micro-unmanned aerial vehicles, or smartphone photos more comparable to those from a full size single-lens reflex (SLR) camera, the researchers say. "The major commercial application may be compact wide-angle imagers with so much resolution that they’ll provide wide-field pan and 'zoom' imaging with no moving parts," said project leader Joseph Ford, a professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). OSA | Read the Full Article Via Peta Pixel

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