Photodetector Breakthrough

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I have a feeling this could really impact digital photography over the next few years.

 

Can You See Me Now? Flexible Photodetectors Could Help Sharpen Photos

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I guess the camera maker has to come up with a totally new system, like the 4/3s, making it hard to sell if it has no unique benefit you cannot get without it. Isn't it btw possible to very accurately correct such problems in software, I thought I read somewhere that the D-lux 4 made that.... Of course, with a curved CCD there would be one less processing step in between the light ray and the image file, which clearly is a benefit. Question is if it's enough to motivate buying into a new system.

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Boy, Brent, that's a confused article, isn't it?

 

Curvature of field is one thing, and this technology could work to correct that--but they're talking about curving the sensor cylindrically, not spherically, aren't they? So we would need a completely new design standard for lenses to use it. (Though I guess they could develop a spherical curvature as well.)

 

But then they talk about bulbous noses, and if I understand the reference, isn't that a totally different issue that has to do with perspective exaggeration, just like all those dumb stories a few years ago on body doubles for Saddam Hussein?

 

I guess it's hard to get good science reporters; or maybe it's just hard to write a science article at everyman level.

 

 

Thanks for the link. We've now got the promise of your curved sensors, Rubén's back-illuminated ones (http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/customer-forum/75864-new-frontier-back-illuminated-sensors.html), and flexible optics as reported who-knows-where.

 

Some of this technology will doubtless find use at the consumer level, and it's interesting to see it developing!

[fotografr]

Boy, Brent, that's a confused article, isn't it?

 

Curvature of field is one thing, and this technology could work to correct that--but they're talking about curving the sensor cylindrically, not spherically, aren't they?

 

That's what they have done as of now, however, the article does mention that they hope to develop hemispherically shaped sensors. You can get a more complete and scientific explanation by reading the full article in the Jan. 5th issue of Applied Physics Letters. The problem is that you will have to pay $24 for a reprint.