Imagine guys a resolution that would highlight the smallest detail in the picture like sky shot that captures a man walking way beneath, or a tear drop waiting to hit the ground!....Researchers at DUKE UNIVERSITY are developing wide-field,videos-rate, gigapixel cameras in small, low-cost form factors.
They are using multiscale designs that combine a mono-centric objective lens with arrays of secondary micro cameras.Then the field-of-view (FOV) is increased by arraying micro-cameras along the focal surface of the objective.
Currently,atwo-gigapixel prototype camera has been built. This system is capable of a 120-degree circular FOV with 226 micro-cameras, 38 micro-radian FOV for a single pixel,and an effective f-number of 2.17.
Each micro-camera operates at 10 fps at full resolution. Cameras performances are unimaginable.Each micro-camera operates independently, offering much more flexibility in images capture,exposure and focus parameters.
