New Digital Camera Lens Made of Liquid

Clarinase writes "101reviews is running an article about a new type of camera lens called Fluidlens. This patented lens made of liquid is no bigger than a contact lens, but can still achieve up to 10 times optical zoom by changing its shape similar to the human eye."

Comments

changing shape

[jest3r]

I have yet to master the art of 10x zoom by changing the shape of my eye ..

Pardon the ignorance...

[lpangelrob]

...but is this really only useful for cameras in camera-phones?

Since it seems the lens size is necessarily very small, will the maximum resolutions of the resulting picture be limited in any way? Or is lens size correlated with the maximum resolution of a camera?

Improvements for the smallest cameras

[Sv-Manowar]

Being able to get good image quality in tiny cameras is becoming increasingly useful because of the adoption of cameras into phones and similarly small devices. The amount of times I've see something I want to take a picture of, but don't have my camera is pretty significant, and I've found that since getting a camera phone its filled this void nicely. Being able to get a high quality image from a phone would be a great step forward for those who are using phone cameras for this kind of role. (Especially as the amount of storage available increases)

Glad to see a real invention for a change

[The I Shing]

I'm glad to see someone patenting an actual invention instead of just claim-jumping someone's idea for a website layout.

the question is...

[Avohir]

is it waterproof?

Re:New Digital Camera Lens Made of Liquid?

[jim_v2000]

Actually, the article you cited says at the bottom that there is no clear answer as to whether or not glass is a liquid.

Thanks for playing!