janki Posted June 25, 2012 Share #1 Posted June 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) When I read the website of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation today, I came across this interesting news. This is news from the U.S., and the article is surely to find in the original language. But I have run the Norwegian text through Google translation, and it seems to make sense. Sånn ser et gigapikselbilde ut - Vitenskap-og-teknologi - NRK How will a giga pixel images look like. Here we look beyond the Seattle super camera AWARE2. Photo: Duke University Imaging and Spectroscopy Program Experts think cameras with resolution of 1,000 megapixels are available for most people within five years. ERLEND Lånke Solbu, erlend.lanke.solbu @ nrk.no Published 06.24.2012 11:43 p.m. Today's cameras tend to have a resolution of between 8 and 40 megapixels - which is more than sufficient for most applications. But now researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona made it all many steps further and created a prototype that has the potential to take pictures with 50 giga pixels. 98 cameras in one giga pixel camera called AWARE2 is composed of 98 synchronized cameras and take preliminary images with a resolution of one gigabyte. These smaller cameras have each a sensor at 14 megapixels, but using the same lens to be able to work together to make one picture. - Each micro camera captures information from a specific part of the visual field, and a processor puts it all into one super-detailed image. In many cases, the camera can capture detail the photographer does not have chance to spot, said David Brady, who has been involved in developing the camera to the Science Daily. The result is a picture with five times better resolution than the sight of a person with 20/20 in visual acuity over a field of view of 120 degrees. Currently, the camera is not something you can fit in the photo purse; it measures 75 x 75 x 50 centimeters. It must be sufficiently large to prevent the electronics are being heated. Time-lapse video showing how the camera was built: Three images per minute Brady believes the camera may be small and cheap enough that it comes at the consumer market within five years. - As more efficient and compact electronics are developed we will enter an era where hand-held giga pixel cameras will dominate. But he sees more applications for giga pixel camera in the near future as well. - It can be used for monitoring, documenting major events such as sporting events or concerts, or multi-user monitoring such as nature reserves or tourist attractions, said Brady to Innovation News Daily. In addition, this type of camera is of great value to researchers. - A picture of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge will be so detailed that one can see how many swans that are at sea or in the air at that moment. This allows researchers to track individual birds, and analyze the behavior within the herd. Currently, the giga pixel camera is able to take three images per minute. The photo is taken in less than one-tenth of a second, but it takes 18 seconds to save the image on the memory chip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted June 25, 2012 Share #2 Posted June 25, 2012 I read that before. For normal photography the idea is absolute nonsense. (but that may not stop marketeers..) As long as your eye has nothing approaching gigapixel resolution your images do not need gigapixel resolution, any more than that your hifi needs to produce ultrasound. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 25, 2012 Share #3 Posted June 25, 2012 It looks like it's a Monochrom camera Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janki Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted June 25, 2012 I read that before. For normal photography the idea is absolute nonsense. (but that may not stop marketeers..) As long as your eye has nothing approaching gigapixel resolution your images do not need gigapixel resolution, any more than that your hifi needs to produce ultrasound. If this technology in a few years would prove to be more manageable, it is perhaps most useful for those who feel a need to monitor us, than the ordinary photographer. “Big Brother” will always try to become better to see us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 25, 2012 Share #5 Posted June 25, 2012 If this technology in a few years would prove to be more manageable, it is perhaps most useful for those who feel a need to monitor us, than the ordinary photographer. “Big Brother” will always try to become better to see us. True... if such a camera can make it possible to spare some airflights to achive high res images for the likes of GoggleEarth, it can be a business : for practical photographic usage hte gigapixels are unuseful.... unless likes to use a 21 in lieu of a 400... ; I like lenses and don't like the idea of "hypercrop as you like !!!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted June 25, 2012 Share #6 Posted June 25, 2012 I don't know about the need for this but as Nokia demonstrated with their 41MP 808 phone is the idea of using a high res sensor and short fixed focal length high quality lens. This allows you to "zoom in" by cropping and makes for a compact system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecar Posted June 25, 2012 Share #7 Posted June 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) How about processing? Unless it comes bundled with a Cray supercomputer, I don't see how it could hit the photography consumer market in 5 years... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted June 25, 2012 Share #8 Posted June 25, 2012 The big issue is not the resolution when taking the pictures but VIEWING THEM I have nothing...... and I see nothing on the horizon.... that allows me to view even current Leica files in all their glory at 100%. No Plasma or LCD TV's display anywhere near the needed resolution. Oh for a iMac with a 42" 6000x4000 screen........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted June 26, 2012 Share #9 Posted June 26, 2012 I would prefer a high-resolution 3D holographic camera. If it needs giga pixels, so be it. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaPassion Posted June 26, 2012 Share #10 Posted June 26, 2012 The Wall Street Journal ran a story on thi last week. It is the size of two microwave ovens and weighs 100 pounds. Some serious downsizing would be needed. Further, from what I can tell, everything is tack sharp even at giga pixel peeping levels. Bokeh fans may be disappointed. The researchers are now working on a color camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted June 26, 2012 Share #11 Posted June 26, 2012 How about processing? Unless it comes bundled with a Cray supercomputer, I don't see how it could hit the photography consumer market in 5 years... Cluster some common desktop computers today and you have something as powerful as the Cray was. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messsucherkamera Posted June 26, 2012 Share #12 Posted June 26, 2012 Given the prices of the S2 and the Hasselblad H4D-60, I look forward with great anticipation to the introduction of the first giga pixel digital camera. My guess is that it will be priced similarly to the Bugatti Veyron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted June 26, 2012 Share #13 Posted June 26, 2012 Hello Everybody, W/ 1,000 Megapixels on the horizon it appears the small device in the shape of a 35mm film cartridge w/ a small something coming out to fit between the pressure plate & the film gate is not that far away. Imagine being able to change sensor characteristics like, well, like changing from Kodachrome to Tri-X. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 26, 2012 Share #14 Posted June 26, 2012 However many pixels you can cram into a certain area (what area? nobody has told me that) you have to have a lens with corresponding resolution. No sensor can capture detail that is not in the optical image. The sensor's resolution will be empty, in the same sense as there is 'empty magnification' in microscopy, meaning that the image is larger, but no new detail is coming in. Already existing sensors in 24x36mm size are taxing the resolution and micro-contrast of practical lenses. There are real limits here. And with today's reconnaissance and surveillance camera technology, the intervening atmosphere is a serious factor. No recce satellite has been able to count the cars in the parking lot outside my home for several days now … The old man from the Age of Reality Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted June 26, 2012 Share #15 Posted June 26, 2012 The combination of organic material and electronic will ultimately provide a more analogue solution. Seems to me that digital will be less so, in a manner of speaking over true next decade, I am not so sure masses of binary will superceed more organic solutions, giga bytes feels a little clumsy to me ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmocrat Posted June 27, 2012 Share #16 Posted June 27, 2012 Nobody seems to be mentioning the computer that post processing will occur on. Granted I just bought a 2 terrabyte external hard drive, which I feel is way overkill, but as digital files are ranging anywhere from 3MB - 60MB, I might need a 2 TB XHD. What would one need, however, to work with images in the GB range? Sorry, after reading this again, I see where a few folks have asked this question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 27, 2012 Share #17 Posted June 27, 2012 Simple - just get a Western Digital 2 Exabyte disk.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted June 27, 2012 Share #18 Posted June 27, 2012 strip | What The Duck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted June 28, 2012 Share #19 Posted June 28, 2012 If this technology in a few years would prove to be more manageable, it is perhaps most useful for those who feel a need to monitor us, than the ordinary photographer. “Big Brother” will always try to become better to see us. Sun glasses,hats, disguises,and no cell phone will be the order of the day. Their next step will be "chipping us" and taking cash money away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 28, 2012 Share #20 Posted June 28, 2012 So sunshades, hats, false beards and appearing in public without a cell phone will be punishable offences. Appearing in public without an identity card is one already, in practice, in most jurisdictions. A Russian proverb from the days of the Czars stated that "ordinary people come in two parts, the body and the soul. But a Russian comes in three: Body, soul and the internal passport." This was when you could travel at will all over Western Europe without a passport … but we are all Russians now. The old man who just missed the Age of Civilization Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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