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Duram wrote:
> Is it coming? When? What am I forgetting?
> 1- connection to PC wireless
If you count IRDA, my wrist camera has been doing this for a while.
> 2- 10 or more meg pixels
Available for years using a scanning back.
> 3- video with 640*480 pixels 30 fps
And more, if you use a dedicated digicam that costs a few hundred
dollars/euros.
> 4- 0 light picture (night vision)
Why wait? Stick an NV scope on the front of your current camera.
As for what you are forgetting - how about multispectral sensors - each
pixel sensitve to 32 or more wavelengths of light. Each camera a multi
megapixel spectrophotometer! Say goodbye to metamerism due to sensor or
light problems.
Extend that to IR and get the visual equivalent of digital ICE - a
sharpening channel for landscapes that cuts through haze, or go the other
way to a UV channel that gives you an edge in distinguishing subtle
differences in flower and other colors.
How about a variable resolution sensor designed to maintain the same real
megapixels as you zoom or resize the raw image after the face, or a non
planar sensor to get rid of chromatic aberration, larger zoom ratios, and
simpler optics. New roles for camera (storage, power, smarts) and lens
(image capture, autofocus, etc). Now you can run two lenses at the same
time on one camera - no more missed sports shots because you zoomed in too
tight. Or slave multiple cameras to one lens to take advantage of different
camera processing and capture specializations.
Stereo or three lens imaging to capture surfaces rather than images, and the
ability to rotate the scene afterward, or machine or mold a solid model of
the subject after the fact. Encode Z (distance) information in each pixel,
and use that information to move people and objects around, add or delete
them, from a shot..
Real time, high resolution, omnidirectional, multi-spectral movies of any
event anywhere, all available on the Internet at the click of a button. Not
just a webcam at the top of the Eiffel tower, but pay $5 an hour to really
*be* there. Move around, look where you want, wait for a parade, or the
airplane you happen to be in, to fly by, and take pictures, videos, or
whatever you want. Get on your own roof, and tune in to a picture of
yourself waving from the nose camera of one of the many airliners flying
over your city.
Every pet collar has realtime GPS and continuous remote imaging
capabilities. Yes, we put them on our kids too. Tiny, flying electronic
insects with remote visual and audio sensing capability, and people who are
savvy and educated enough to know how to protect our privacy, and use these
things the way they should be.
Pay $1000 for a month of piloting your own rover on the surface of Mars,
with resolution and sound so flawless you can feel the thin wind blowing
through your hair. Meet with several friends on Mars and participate in
your own geological experiment or exploration. Martian geocacheing, by
Jupiter!
Now many of these are things we may all live to see, and personally, I
can't wait!
--
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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