how good could the picture be from a camera that was the size of a fly's head?
Assuming the technology that formed the photon detectors was as good as possible.
I was just thinking it might be a bit fuzzy.
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how good could the picture be from a camera that was the size of a fly's head?
Assuming the technology that formed the photon detectors was as good as possible.
I was just thinking it might be a bit fuzzy.
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what is the smallest camera now, and how good are the pictures that it takes?
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The ones in the eyglasses on NCIS seem to take and transmit perfect hi-res video...Originally Posted by novaderrik
I thought about putting photographic film as an answer, but it's already there.
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I would think the smallest camera would be a pinhole with a bitsy CCD behind it.
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DOH! Somehow I had the obsolescence thread in my mind when I wrote that.
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It would. Cameras can definitely become diffraction limited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system
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Here is a 2006 blog entry with picture about a CMOS camera that is 2.1 x 2.3 mm. They don't show any example pictures.
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In the future, who knows, really.
We now know the diffraction limit isn't really a limit, if you use metamaterial hyperlenses.
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