Have you ever looked at a scene and it just isn't captured the way you can see it, in your camera?
This new technology is based on the human eye and could lead to sharpers photography and possibly led to the creation of a bionic eye.
The eye captures images on the curved surface at the back of the eye, but cameras capture the image on a flat surface, causing some distortion of the image.
US researchers have come up with a new imaging device which captures on a curved surface mimicking the eyes curvature.
The "eye" is made of flexible mesh of wires, has been incorporated into a working camera the size and shape of a human eye. Images produced are sharper than those taken on conventional two-dimensional surfaces.
The researchers believe this could be the first steps to creating a working bionic eye for humans.
"It foreshadows artificial retinas for bionic eyes similar to those in the movie Terminator and other popular science fiction," said a statement issued by the University of Illinois.
Monash University vision scientist Dr Adrian Dyer described the results, published overnight in the journal Nature, as very exciting. "To capture the light or the image in this type of form is one really key part of how to create quite a good bionic eye system."
Once again Photography is helping people :)
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Wow, that's pretty scary. In camera however, this would only work in a standard lens wouldn't it? For instance, this bionic eye sees the world how we see it, whereas fisheye lens' and wide angle lens' have distortion. So what I'm saying is people who use those lens' wouldn't be interested in a perfect image.
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