AWARE2 Multiscale Gigapixel Camera.

This program is focused on building wide-field, video-rate, gigapixel cameras in small, low-cost form factors. Traditional monolithic lens designs, must increase f/# and lens complexity and reduce field of view as image scale increases. In addition, traditional electronic architectures are not designed for highly parallel streaming and analysis of large scale images. The AWARE Wide field of view project addresse these challenges using multiscale designs that combine a monocentric objective lens with arrays of secondary microcameras.

Now this is big bit photography….

Nikon D800: Game Changer?

Is this a “game” changer? If so, what game does it change?
this chart is the Google Trend between Phase One, and Nikon D800 searches. The trend for Phase One is downward. Even though the trend for Nikon’s D800 has peaked, it remains well above what the trend for Phase ever was.