Tiny camera records details of scene without losing sight of the big picture

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 09:01 in Astronomy & Space

To capture all the details of a 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 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.

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