... I ... that ... is what one take a pixel camera looks like ... an afternoon I'm Ralf Winkler welcome to Digits ... II and ... were to jump right in here we've got Gotham Knight from the law Street Journal tells us about this camera ... got them I think we've also got an image of what a photo ... actually looks like ... coming from this this one bigger pixel camera ... aam ... did tell us a little bit about it this is an external camera from Duke University ... that's right as a team of scientists in the U S team built a prototype of what perhaps the best ... the soup to nuts Zetia pixel camera look that is the use ... of camera that's about ... thirty times more powerful than the best digital SLR ... you could get on the market today ... and ... so were talk about thirty times better the best SLR ... talk to me in pixels write is this is this is ... how many pixels relative to what ... we can get out of that Best SLR ... right so today I think ... that top line of digital SLR is probably comes in at ... fifteen twenty twenty five megapixels megapixel is a million pixels ... a camera to the cute Univeristy team is put together as a billion pixels ... so that's roughly five times more resolution than the human eye can see it the uptrend that he did ... so ... that's interesting five cents for resolution of the human eye can see ... I would ask ... what's the point ... right well if you're doing ... aerial ... reconnaissance if you want to get a ... beautiful landscape and get to zoom in on any aspect of the incredible detail ... is the kind of camera though the TDI one to jump in quickly were just to let the viewers know at home that we're actually looking right now I think in in in the age ... of ... what this camera can actually taken a liking to like as you're describing ... we're still being ... very deserving and very very tightly you can see some amazing detail ... we added the distance but please continue ... yet so so it's very important because this is going to change the way photography and even of the geography takes place of this camera for spoken to both video images ... as well as it seeks to distill from it it's a very hopeful still camera ... the the way we do but if the graffiti they say is you try and find something even seen the key thing is worth photographing you ... point a camera lens that then you take shelter what does that ... bring you to stick to the two kitties scene and later on you downloaded to computer ... use software to hone in on any area of this entire wide angle of the landscape ... and Ben Cropp what to eat the stupid picture of the BT if it is ... that it would ... render that took the picture in extreme high resolution ... I should also add in a purist and evil of regular folk would argue that this is going to ruin the craft of photography because no longer you looking for a cheesesteak ... a photograph of the entire scene ... and then go and find it later on we're telling you that simple for photographer ... that mean you've got a judge or white you gotta there's there's alot scaling when it comes to ... taking a photo will it really be a simple is just when your camera at something and ... I just taking all seemed ... well on the point of view Try to be at the right length place like you know the only copy of this on the famous ... St Dover said in a bid for a decisive moment ... being right that the right time this camera that she simply does then in a marketplace for example take a picture of him that I seem to want click the shutter ... and an economic on and find that fascinating little ... conversation or ... something happening in the scene and that could be a peachy and hope that ... um I live in it comes to ... video ... let's say you're watching a tennis match due to be focusing on Roger Federer ... and didn't seem that plane is flying off a mile away and you can zoom in ... on the airplane Etsy Etsy though the British happenings ... of ... British Airways plane so that's the kind of thing you could do it with you okay now now been tell us how long will it be before I can actually ... buy this kind of camera ... but such episodes just assigned to the prototype this is been built in the lab is pretty low at just about the size of two microwave ovens wants to come up with the other ... the current prototype only takes like twenty says that there would be on a coalition of the gritty by the end the year ... and is that a lot of time together and help consumer region the reason is ... the electronics decouple office space the optics don't be Iconix tooth and it also requires tremendous amount of power and its ... Loki coming out of it so you need a large box to contain its own right now ... it has to sit on the floor or mounted on a very very strong pull for it to be workable but ... other times the gambling that with the singlets of these things ... that set the board to come down in size and all the other components will ... diminish in size and well and maybe one day we'll have ... a hand held camera that can render a billion ... began to get something like Moore's Law with the daily chips where every year they have double and