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These devices will have very poor image quality. It's not like making small lenses is hard; the properties of light mean that anything usable as a camera will b
by sethrin 13y ago
These devices will have very poor image quality. It's not like making small lenses is hard; the properties of light mean that anything usable as a camera will be visible to the naked eye. Cameras can be small, but they cannot be arbitrarily small. Your "What then?" will never happen.
- acchow 13y ago"the properties of light" probably mean we won't have cameras as small as a speck of dust or a grain of sand. But a grain of rice is pretty big. Can you explain why you think that won't be possible?
- sethrin 13y agoYou can shrink the lens and CCD down that far[0], but adding in a power source and data storage is likely to increase the size. Batteries are not tracking other improvements in technology. Additionally with a lens that small you're almost certainly going to want some form of image processing. You can move the problems of storage and process if you want to radiate or have a wire, but those introduce other concerns. Shrinking the entire package down to a grain of rice seems overly optimistic. [0] http://lanmdagigi.en.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_The_smallest_CCD_camera--7780425.html?gubun=S http://lanmdagigi.en.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_The_smallest...