Forget MegaPixels think one pixel

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The single pixel camera, story on BBC website.

Researchers in the US are developing a single-pixel camera to capture high-quality images without the expense of traditional digital photography.

Being developed by a lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the single-pixel camera is designed to tackle what its developers see as the "inefficiencies" of modern digital camera.

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seems increadably pointless too me - they want to reduce the power usage by using something with thousands of mirrors that turn on and off :| instead of the few mirrors we have now. Its still going to need a processor to sort out all the stuff from these mirrors :( Maybe it is just too technical for me, but it sounds pointless!
 
interesting!
 
seems a bit odd, just like you are moving the processing from the camera into a seperate computer, and the image can take minutes to reconstruct, everybody hold still and say cheese!!

TBH I can't see the point, they are talking in terms of jpeg compression for wasting pixel data but a lot of people use RAW and TIFF, equally the cost of camera components is dropping all the time due to a larger and ever growing market, this needs millions of tiny mirrors, minutes for a picture and all to realistically squeeze a few more pics out of your battery?
 
Agree, I see no point to this at all, at least for comercial/hobby photography. It may be that it finds a use in something like a space telescope but I doubt it.
 
Never say never. Would film photographers believe that they would have moved to digital? Technology will always advance and I'm sure more changes will take place as time progresses.
 
Its the number of seperate mirrors that worry me. Essentially they have traded pixels for mirrors and the mirrors are presumably more fragile?

Agree this may have an application in space telescopes where power consumption and broadcastig are key......

Dont fancy one meself tho:thumbsdown:
 
You could use the processing they are speaking about to look through the windows of bathrooms .......
 
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