Digital Film Sensor - Potential for Film Holders?

[Brian C. Miller]

New Imaging Device That Is Flexible, Flat, and Transparent (http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/newsreleases/2013/new_imaging_device_that_is_flexible,_flat,_and_tra/)


... an Austrian research team has developed an entirely new way of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet.

http://www.osa.org/osaorg/media/osa.media/News/2013/OpEx_-_flexible_imager_-_image1_embed.jpg

Looks like the fellows in Austria have figured out a way to bring digital sensing to large format! Sure, it's just one wavelength now, and the resolution is 32x32, but this is the closest technology to a slip-in replacement for film in a large format camera.

[Amedeus]

Interesting technology ... it will take a while though before you see this in use for photography ...

[ic-racer]

New Imaging Device That Is Flexible, Flat, and Transparent (http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/newsreleases/2013/new_imaging_device_that_is_flexible,_flat,_and_tra/)



http://www.osa.org/osaorg/media/osa.media/News/2013/OpEx_-_flexible_imager_-_image1_embed.jpg

Looks like the fellows in Austria have figured out a way to bring digital sensing to large format! Sure, it's just one wavelength now, and the resolution is 32x32, but this is the closest technology to a slip-in replacement for film in a large format camera.

Or an even better way to do that, and eliminate the computer needed to reconstruct the image from the periphery sensors. Instead of using the fluorescent compound, use a halide of silver to capture the photons. This would allow one to reconstruct the entire image right on the flexible transparent medium by using a simple development process which turns the light-activated silver halide into elemental silver.

[Morten]

Or an even better way to do that, and eliminate the computer needed to reconstruct the image from the periphery sensors. Instead of using the fluorescent compound, use a halide of silver to capture the photons. This would allow one to reconstruct the entire image right on the flexible transparent medium by using a simple development process which turns the light-activated silver halide into elemental silver.

That could work... :rolleyes:

[paulr]

"The emerging printing technology poses a heretical idea: Rather than squeezing more transistors into the same small space, why not smear the transistors across a much larger surface?"

www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/science/tiny-chiplets-are-a-new-level-of-micro-manufacturing.html?hp&_r=0

[Brian C. Miller]

A self-assembling sensor would be really good. The problem with the current fab technology is that the whole chip has to be tossed when a certain percentage of the sensor sites are dead. This way, the chiplets could be tested prior to final fabrication, and 4x5 or 8x10 sensors would be in the realm of affordability.

As for the computing chiplets, this promises some interesting designs. I would expect things like this to go into embedded systems, not desktops or servers.

[SergeiR]

i'd be happy to settle for decent quality e-ink plate ;)