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The multitude of lenses that make up an insect's eye is providing inspiration for a new generation of super-slim camera phone.
Conventional camera lenses cannot be shrunk below a few millimetres in thickness before reducing the field of view. But a compound lens, made from hundreds of tiny "micro lenses", can be made around one-tenth of the width, while retaining the same field of view and quality of image.
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Posted: 2005-04-30 16:51:11
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Residentevil Posts: > 500
That sounds promising.
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Posted: 2005-04-30 22:51:13
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The image quality of such a small compound lens would be limited to about 250 by 250 pixels, or 0.06 of a megapixel. The lenses should be relatively cheap and simple to manufacture, as micro lenses can be made using existing lithographic techniques, Bräuer adds.
Camera phones have exceeded that small range.
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Posted: 2005-04-30 22:56:28
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"Camera phones have exceeded that small range."
Nah man.. it's 250x250 for each small compound lens. So, when constructed into a 10x10 matrix of lens, you get approximately 6Mpix of resolution.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 07:00:31
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so in theory you incorporate this technology into digital cameras, not phones, you could have say a 100x100 compound lens matrix. which would produce upwards of a 50 megapixel photo. now take 3 100x100 compund lenses, each one picking up the 3 different colours red blue and green and thats how you can create super high quality 50 megapixel photo.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 09:53:28
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Yeah but if thats true, there must be a catch, because they werent eager to put it in regular cameras, only camera phones, and compactness is almost as important in digicams.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 11:03:48
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The technology is in its infancy so lets see what becomes of it over time.to early to speculate,but the idea looks promising.
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Posted: 2005-05-01 21:55:05
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sooner or later camera phones in installed with a human eye for the best picture quality possible...
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Posted: 2005-05-02 03:48:48
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i like the idea but its impossible
you would first have to work out how to read the signal sent from the retina...then decipher those signals...then process them....then create the image
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Posted: 2005-05-02 09:17:51
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@davo: have you already tried? :-)
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Posted: 2005-05-02 09:28:43
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