posted by @ulaulaman #photography #computer #science #technology
Sometimes, using the Android application
Wondershare Panorama, I try to shot some panoramical photos. The result is good, but it could be better, like everything: indeed the actual camera (also in our smartphones) work
near the fundamental limit of 1–10 megapixels for millimetre-scale apertures(1). In theory
(2) we are able to upgrade this limit. If we define $SW$ like the
upper limit for the number of data channels which can be handled in parallel(2), after some calculations,
Adolf W. Lohmann found that without aberration, it
would increase quadratically with the scaling factor $M$(2). This result is different from the purely geometry result that states $SW$ indipendent from scaling.
That result cannot be realistic, otherwise, very long focal length lens systems would be fairly useless. In practice, the apertures of these long systems are reduced, more or less according to the empirical rule(2)
Now a team of researchers develop a new photographical device that can resolve at 50 gigapixels:
AWARE-2 camera(1, *).
And below there are some examples of its capabilities
(1):
