jameshamm

The cost is too high. If it was in the $10-$30 range, maybe. The way it is it's approaching $1k per year!

Interesting up to that mft camera. You'd be better served by a film holder. Even then, why not build a field box and use properly sized film? No point at all going digital with a glass plane.

1:10 - Aahh.

A better concept would be to follow more closely a design vastly superior to today's camera designs: The eye.

Start with a spherical sensor and suddenly your lens can be surprisingly simple. You...

They'll be posted on the Channing McClaren site.

There is no need for recovery. You may not know this, but once you play a video file on a NEX camera, it switches to "only playing video files" mode and you will not see your stills until you go...

So I'm walking home from Smith's pub late at night with my nex5 in my pocket when I see a cop beating a young drunk guy on the pavement. I lean against a stone wall and pressing the camera against...

Not only it looks cheap, but ugly too.

@John 3 - wink.

Sensor specs are not that much of an issue on a robotic arm. You can stagger pictures to create any resolution image.

I have thought about something similar. If you look at the human eye, it accomplishes an incredible feat with a single lens, and lots and lots of specialized receptors. I was wondering why no...

I have thought about something similar. If you look at the human eye, it accomplishes an incredible feat with a single lens, and lots and lots of specialized receptors. I was wondering why no...

I have thought about something similar. If you look at the human eye, it accomplishes an incredible feat with a single lens, and lots and lots of specialized receptors. I was wondering why no...

Right on.

Seems like focus was challenge in the samples.

Seems like focus was a challenge in the samples.