Taking a picture with a traditional digital camera "is like looking through a soda straw since you can only see a narrow part of the scene," David Brady, the optical engineer at Duke who led the team ...

What’s that in your fancy, expensive digital SLR camera: 40 megapixels? Yawn. Researchers have designed a camera that could take 50,000-megapixel shots. Though the team has currently built and tested ...

We, humans, love life’s finer details. And thanks to a team at the Rijksmuseum—the Netherlands’ national arts and history museum—one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings has now been archived in finer ...

Keeping up with technology is a constant race. Moore’s Law makes sure of that, despite recent news that the well-known processing power law (the doubling of transistors per unit area) will reach its ...

As the number of gigapixel images available increases – offering incredible detail from indecently high-resolution cameras – it seems all the more perverse to view them, as if peering through a ...

Big eye Engineers in the United States have built a prototype gigapixel camera the size of a bedside cabinet that can capture an image in a single snapshot with 1000 times more detail than today's ...

Holograms fascinate people because of their ability to display three-dimensional information in a single two-dimensional image. But making holograms is hard, largely because of the huge amount of ...

While digital cameras such as the Hasselblad H4D-200MS and Nikon D800 have pushed the megapixel boundary in recent times, and Nokia’s inclusion of a 41-megapixel camera into its 808 PureView ...