• Question: how many cameras do you work with?

    Asked by to Andrew on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Andrew French answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Quite a few different ones for different reasons!

      We have lightweight ones to fly in helicopters,

      Lightfield cameras to produce 3D images (they have really clever sensors which can work out how far away things are, allowing you to make a 3D image),

      Really special cameras called hyperspectral cameras, which split light into its spread of colours (like a rainbow) allowing you to very accurately measure the colour of objects. Using this approach you can tell so much about things by the way they do or don’t reflect certain colours of light.

      Cameras to fix to microscopes to take images of cells.

      And several others too!

      All these cameras still produce a kind of digital image – not unlike your phone camera or digital camera you might have at home. But the information, or data, they store is used for different things.

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