{"id":218,"date":"2014-03-02T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:51:51","slug":"multi-lens-systems-coming-to-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/multi-lens-systems-coming-to-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-lens systems coming to phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/02\/26\/corephotonics-dual-lens-smartphone-camera\/\">Interesting news from Engadget<\/a> about a new system that promises depth sensing, better zoom, and more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The big trick here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corephotonics.com\/\">Corephotonics<\/a>&#8216; use of two lenses with two different focal lengths. One lens is wide-angle, while the other is at 3x zoom. This means you can switch lenses to magnify more distant subjects without resorting to digital zoom. In the test set-up shown in the video above, which compared the dual-lens system side-by-side with a traditional smartphone camera (with both modules pointed at a test card around a foot away), the Corephotonics system outputted a clear 13-megapixel image regardless of whether it was at 1x or 3x zoom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/pshared.5min.com\/Scripts\/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&#038;width=560&#038;height=345&#038;playList=518135708'><\/script><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news from Engadget about a new system that promises depth sensing, better zoom, and more: The big trick here is Corephotonics&#8216; use of two lenses with two different focal lengths. One lens is wide-angle, while the other is at 3x zoom. This means you can switch lenses to magnify more distant subjects without resorting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}