Record Breaking Camera with 158 Lenses
Two days ago, Sankei News in Japan reported that a Nagoya Institute of Technology team led by Professor Yojiro Ishino was certified by Guinness World Records as having built the “Camera With The Most Lenses”. The camera boasts a staggering 158 separate lenses.
The setup reminds me of the camera array used to shoot the “bullet time” scenes in The Matrix, except rather than having a large number of individual cameras, this setup has a single “camera” with a large number of lenses.
The record-breaking camera took six months to build, and is meant to capture the movement of a flame simultaneously from multiple directions. Each lens cost only 200 yen, which is about $2.26. Thus, the whole collection of lenses cost only about $360.
Kudos if anyone can send us photographs taken with this camera!
(via CrunchGear)
Update: Here’s an image taken with the camera, and some additional photographs of the camera itself. Kudos to Durf for finding this!
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There's a single shot available with this Yomiuri article:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20091210-...
I imagine after you get the captures from all those angles you can use software to piece them together as a 3D model of the flame at that point in time.
When I lived in Tokyo I saw several photo exhibitions by photographers with do-it-yourself lens modifications.
Awesome. Updated the post with this link and your kudos.
Thanks!
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Not to be a hater, but don't plenoptic cameras have thousands of microlenses? For example this one has 85,264 different microlenses in addition to the primary lens. Just saying.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/lf...
Hmmmm. Maybe somehow those cameras don't meet Guinness' criteria? Not sure…
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