cameras stories

Amazing Lytro camera doesn't need to focus

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 10:15am
 
The Lytro is a revolutionary new camera that doesn't need you to fiddle around with stuff like focus, zooming, focal points or any other such settings. Instead, it takes in a boatload of information and then lets you tweak it after the fact.

Massive OmegaCam takes 268-megapixel space pics

Evan Ackerman
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:57pm
 
The 1,700 pound sensor that makes up the wide-angle eye of the VLT Survey Telescope (aka VST) is exactly like the sensor in your digital camera. Except, you know, bigger. A lot bigger. We're talking an array of 32 individual CCD sensors that together take 268 megapixels worth of images of outer space. Meet OmegaCam.

Concept WVIL camera uses a detachable DSLR lens

Evan Ackerman
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 3:21pm
 
The primary reason why you can take better pictures with a DSLR than with your iPhone isn't the sensor, it's the lens. This concept camera keeps all that sexy DSLR glass, and then makes the rest of the camera into something that's iPhone-sized and detachable, even while you're taking pics.

This here is one seriously compact camera

Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:58pm
 
The MAME-CAM looks like a tiny toy, the type of little bauble that the Japanese love to dangle from their cellphones. But it's actually a fully-functioning camera that can take real-deal pictures.

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