In Part 2 of Engineering TV's interview with Eric Tremblay, researcher at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, Eric discusses the Montage, a new camera design derived from a "slice" of the original full aperture symmetric lens, which features a much greater depth of field and a USB interface, all in a package about the size of a domino. "This type of miniature camera is very promising for applications where you want high resolution images and a short exposure time. This describes what cell phone cameras want to be when they grow up," says professor Joseph Ford in the Photonic Systems Integration Lab at the Jacobs School. "Today's cell phone cameras are pretty good for wide angle shots, but because space constraints require short focal length lenses, when you zoom them in, they're terrible. They're blurry, dark, and low contrast."
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