“Plenoptic camera” can make cell phones thinner

Usually cell phones can't get much thinner because the on board camera and lens need certain proportions in order to work properly. But what if you replaced the single, large lens with many, smaller lens, took an image and then composed it based on all those smaller images? Well, that's what Pelican Imaging's new prototype ...

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Think Twelve Megapixel Is Awesome? Try THIS.

Sure, we all look around at the market of digital cameras out there, and we're all a little amazed by some of the resolutions out there.  Ten, twelve, fifteen megapixel...some pretty nice photos, right? Well, brace yourself, because this is going to blow your mind wide open. A camera being developed by Fermilab for installation in an ...

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Fizwoz.com pays you money for cell phone photos

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One Minute With A Droid Camera

So you may or may not have heard about the Droid, a camera phone from a strange bedfellows coalition that is Verizon and Google, but by all reports, this sucker's something else. In fact, I just found video a matter of hours ago involving the Droid--someone took a one minute long test video with their Droid's ...

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Broadcom’s New Chip Makes 1080p Cell Phone Cameras Possible

I know, the headline kind of says it all, but it's still rather exciting news all the same.  Cell phone cameras aren't exactly the most powerful tools in the photographer's arsenal.  In fact, they're kind of minimalist.  They have to be; after all, they're sharing not very much space with a whole lot of other ...

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