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The Flexcam is a Camera That Can Shoot Panoramas in One Shot

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Last updated on 08/19/2013
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Panoramic cameras have been around for years and years–but have mostly performed best in the analog days. But over at the Queen’s University Media Lab, the tinkerers there have been experimenting and prototyping a flexible camera that aims to shoot panoramas in one image. To do it, the researchers incorporated multiple camera sensors and lenses onto a flexible surface. The information that the sensors see is displayed onto a flexible OLED screen on the back so that the panorama can be accurately shown.

The OLED screen is so far very responsive to the bends that someone might do to get a wider field of vision.

The only problem that we see so far is just how specialized this might be. Surely landscape photographers would totally eat this up but they also want RAW files to work with and something like this can’t be very portable. It currently seems like you’d be toting around a computer keyboard. Getting consumers to step away from their panoramic features might be tough unless they make it smaller with small sensors.

Video demo is after the jump.

Via Gizmodo


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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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