New system could be used to build a camera that pans and
zooms with no moving parts
To capture all the details of a crime scene, you might take
many photos at close range. To get the whole scene at once, you could use a
wide-angle or fisheye lens; but without an especially large lens you would be
sacrificing the fine resolution that would help you catch that partial
footprint you might otherwise have missed. Now a new type of miniature camera
system promises to give users a big picture view without sacrificing
high-resolution. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego will
describe their novel device at The Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting,
Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013, taking place Oct. 6-10 in Orlando, Fla.