Google Tech Talk: Image Quality Explained
Norman Koren explains how to analyze Image Quality using Imatest.
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The Lie of Interpolation
Look at this ebay auction. Here the seller claims a Fifteen Megapixel camera, but if you read closer, the pixels are Interpolated. This means the image is just resized to be more (blurred) pixels. A gimmick that is a waste of memory and whose only purpose is to deceive consumers into believing that they’re buying a high Megapixel device. Read on to find the camera actually only has 5.0 Megapixel!
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Megapixel Myth Launches web site 6/21/07
MegapixelMyth.com launched on June 21st 2007. This web site was created to inform and educate consumers of digital cameras about all the factors that affect image quality. Educated consumers that know that there is mre to a camera than its megapixels will put forces on the manufacturers that will enable new lens, sensor, and processing technologies to succeed. This will help improve the image quality of cameras big and small.
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Nokia & Motorola Lead $100 Billion Camera Phone Market
Camera phones have been a huge success, with unit sales rising from three million in 2001 to 500 million last year. As CCD continues to lose the sensor wars in the mobile space, Micron, Omnivision and other CMOS vendors have been the prime beneficiaries.
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Fluidic Lens inspired by biological eye
UCSD researchers are developing a lens that has capsule with flexible membranes on each side. The pressure of the fluid within the capsule controls the shape of the lens. This can make for zoom and autofocus lenses that are 1/3rd the length of their comparable conventional lens.
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“Orgami Lens” Folds up your long camera lens
Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications.
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Kodak’s new pixel technology improves light performance
"We have a new technology for how to manufacture image sensors in a way that increases the sensitivity of the device to light by two to four times what is available today," says Mike DeLuca, Eastman Kodak market segment manager for professional and applied imaging.
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