Thursday, June 21, 2012

Super-Camera Breakthrough


Super-Camera Breakthrough is right.  Duke University has built at experimental camera that can capture a billion pixels –  and will one with an even larger pixel count next year.  That means the camera can capture 5 X as much information as a person with 20/20 vision can see.

It also has all parts of a picture in focus, a rare thing in the real world.  So, one could zoom into see individual persons at different distances in a photo.  And of course this could revolutionize security cameras and spy planes.  For more information Google  Super-Camera Breakthrough Gautam Maik.  I have found by adding the story reporter’s name to the name of an article, you can the article on-line, and thus don’thave to buy the paper (assuming you don’t already own it).  This one was in the Wall Street Journal.  

Photos taken with the camera can be seen at www.WSJ.com/US   So far it is only black and white, but color is coming next. 

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