A camera developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology has been certified by Guinness World Records to sport the most lenses in the world. The device has no less than 158 lenses. Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students built it to capture images of a swaying flame from as many angles as possible.
It took the team a total of six months to finish this monster. The lenses are attached in four rows on the body of the device, which is 7.2cm high and 47cm in diameter. Each lens costs $2.10.
The camera can also shoot 3D pictures of a flame by using CT technology. It received the Guinness certificate on November 24 already (but was on the news in Japan only today).
Via Sankei News [JP]
My god!
158 lenses?
My Camera just one~
I hate so-called news items like this where the author doesn’t provide photo results of using the camera. No photos, no videos, no nothing! Many news authors of interesting stories where a picture is worth a thousand words is never provided. Boring, boring, boring…..
I could not agree with you more. It is hardly news without a sample of what it can do
Someone call Worf – looks like Nagoya Institute of Technology is “inventing” things by stealing them from blind chief engineers.
this looks cool. i’m gonna google the project and see what i can find.
@thebonafortuna:
Why would Worf care? Its Gordi who had the eyepiece!
158? So?? MINE has 159! *evil laughter effect… buahahahaha*
Cuz worf is chief of security, duh. ( unless we’re talking about the yar years)
I guess Guiness was un aware of Dayton Taylors Cameras (design and built by a friends of mine) that have up to 160 lenses… see:
http://www.timetrack.com/timetrackcameras.html
AB