Researchers developed earlier cameras with very high resolutions, but such cameras are usually for research intended. A new gigapixel technology would in the long term, however, consumers can be.
Photos with a resolution of tens of gigapixels have already been made, but that were composietafbeeldingen that with normal dslr’s are made. The U.s. army showed a camera with a few gigapixels to develop and a telescope over a few years, advanced by 3.2 GP-camera. The camera technology offered by researchers from Duke , California and Arizona universities and the company DistantFocus in America was developed, however, would be in the long term also for consumers are appropriate.
For now, the camera is not ready for the consumer market; the device is about 50 centimeters deep and about 75 inches wide and high. The bulk of the device is, however, not optical elements and sensors, but the required processors and electronics to the 50 gigapixel image. That hardware should be the image that the individual 14 megapixel cameras produce merge into a single image. The camera makes use of an fpga board, that two of the camera’s controls. The individual cameras have a resolution of 1384 at 3288 pixels and works at 10fps.
The gigapixel camera uses a single objective lens that the light under the small cameras distributes. The composition of the camera seems to be on the facetoog of some insects. Each camera can be individually focused on and controlled. To no details to miss, overlap the ‘blikvelden’ of the cameras to each other still a bit. The field of view of the complete camera, limited by the housing and the lens, is 120 degrees horizontally and 40 degrees vertically.
The camera, co-developed for the American defensieonderzoekstak Darpa, as the project name Aware. Were already a number of prototypes shown, including the latest version using 226 cameras and a resolution of 2 gigapixels. An earlier version had 98 cameras and, after deduction of the overlap, a resolution of 1 gigapixel. Images shot with the camera’s which were recorded, are online to view.
The camera should be on term an image of up to 50 gigapixels, or 50,000 megapixels can produce. According to one of the developers, David Brady of Duke university, the further increase of computing power in the camera is smaller. Also the cooling of the components have relatively large dimensions. About five years would be the technique, however, far enough advanced in consumer cameras used to be.
