Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff)

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50 Gigapixel (50,000 megapixel) camera?

Posted by Xeno on June 22, 2012

By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device, electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a prototype camera that can create images with unprecedented detail.

The camera’s resolution is five times better than 20/20 human vision over a 120 degree horizontal field.

The new camera has the potential to capture up to 50 gigapixels of data, which is 50,000 megapixels. By comparison, most consumer cameras are capable of taking photographs with sizes ranging from 8 to 40 megapixels. Pixels are individual “dots” of data — the higher the number of pixels, the better resolution of the image.

via ScienceDaily

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620133151.htm

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