Gigapixel camera catches the smallest details

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Unread postPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:52 pm 
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From the article "Gigapixel camera catches the smallest details" on nature.com:

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"David Brady, an engineer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues are developing the AWARE-2 camera with funding from the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (abstract). The camera's earliest use will probably be in automated military surveillance systems, but its creators hope eventually to make the technology available to researchers, media companies and consumers. ... AWARE-2 sidesteps the size issue by using 98 microcameras, each with a 14-megapixel sensor, grouped around a shared spherical lens. Together, they take in a field of view 120 degrees wide and 50 degrees tall. With all the packaging, data-processing electronics and cooling systems, the entire camera is about 0.75 by 0.75 by 0.5 metres in volume. The current version of the camera can take images of about one gigapixel; by adding more microcameras, the researchers expect eventually to reach about 50 gigapixels. Each microcamera runs autofocus and exposure algorithms independently, so that every part of the image — near or far, bright or dark — is visible in the final result. Image processing is used to stitch together the 98 sub-images into a single large one at the rate of three frames per minute."

An interesting method of assembling an image - not so much the stitching, but the separate autofocus and exposure for each piece of the image. Talk about resolution and dynamic range... :o

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This article in the Wall Street Journal has more info, as well as a picture of the lens/sensor array... Most impressive.

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Or, just peep this... Think it'll fit into the M10? :D

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