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Engineers eye-up insect biology as inspiration for curved camera

04 May

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Engineers have developed a curved camera designed to mimic insects’ compound eyes. The hemispherical design gives a wide field-of-view with no aberrations and effectively infinite depth-of-field, with the hope it could be used in applications such as endoscopy or as visual sensors on unmanned aircraft. The current design uses 180 light-sensitive elements, each behind its own lens, but researchers hope to build one with 20,000 elements, giving a similar resolution to that seen by dragonflies.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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