3D camera breaks world record with 158 lenses

Sure, there are viable commercial options for taking photos in three dimensions, but if you really want to capture 3D images (and you happen to be attached to a major university) you can always go the route of Associate Professor Ishino Youzirou and company. The camera that they developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology sports 158 lenses arranged on an 18.5-inch aluminum arc frame. The school's combustion engineers will use it to study irregular flames -- all the while content in the knowledge that they've entered the Guinness Book of World Records for building the camera with the most lenses. This is certainly safer than Youzirou's other attempt to enter the Guinness book, Most Live Rattlesnakes Held in the Mouth (the record for that, by the way, is ten).

[edwardchow Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:22PM]

nikon or canon?

[BigD145 Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:24PM]

3D, but not 360. Bullet time camera rigs are interesting.

[colski Posted Jan 6th 2010 5:55AM]

@BigD145 Made with a Fuji 3D camera: http://www.start3d.com/5450832250/0022/5553271811543416

[reallynotnick Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:26PM]

18.5 inches? Dang i was hoping this thing was huge like Matrix camera array huge.

[credo Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:58PM]

@reallynotnick
thats what she said!

[Vuph Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:28PM]

Pix or ban?

[jonnythan Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:33PM]

Any male who claims they would do anything with this besides photograph their penis is a dirty liar.

[YuriTenshi Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:47PM]

Any male who wants to photograph their penis is a sick, sick bastard. Nobody wants to see it, all others will do is laugh at the (lack of) size.

[dystroglycan Posted Dec 15th 2009 1:04AM]

@YuriTenshi
I'm pretty anyone who does that is just really comfortable around penis'

[BigKing Posted Dec 15th 2009 6:58AM]

@dystroglycan

I'm pretty sure the only guys who take pictures of their penis are the ones who don't get the opportunity to show it off in real life.

[Eternity Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:49PM]

With this whole 3D TV thing kicking off it seems like the flailing pr0n industry is finding creative ways of selling Blu Rays. This literally adds a new dimension to pr0n viewing.

[Mitchell2 Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:56PM]

"irregular flames"?!?!!? REALLY? They just made that up so they could get a 3D camera...

[NAME Posted Dec 14th 2009 10:58PM]

HAHA your 12MP camera cell phone is out of date!

LOL ROLF NOOB!

[credo Posted Dec 14th 2009 11:00PM]

Do "irregular flames" and combustion "engineers" involve burritos and lighters?

[truthbeacon Posted Dec 14th 2009 11:08PM]

I hardly see how this is new... We've been doing this for the better part of at least a decade in physics classes.

[Schmitty Posted Dec 14th 2009 11:13PM]

Pron

[daytripper Posted Dec 14th 2009 11:46PM]

I won't be impressed until it's duct taped to an iPhone.

[trippisme Posted Dec 14th 2009 11:48PM]

11 rattlesnakes in your mouth? (he'd need 11 to break the record) Is it just me or does that seem like a bad idea? Though if he takes another try at it he can at least record it in 3D with the 158 lenses in that camera ^_^

[lucasz Posted Dec 15th 2009 12:06AM]

@trippisme can't believe it took 20 people to say something about the rattlesnakes. That's crazy!

[TonyRockyHorror Posted Dec 15th 2009 12:59AM]

Now I can finally get that gigapixel, wrap-around picture of my balls that I've been wanting for years!

[EGOvoruhk Posted Dec 15th 2009 2:22AM]

3D camera, or Geordi La Forge VISOR? Hmmmmm

[Daverator Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:56AM]

@EGOvoruhk
THANK YOU I was wondering how long the internet was going to take to make the comparison.

[SergioAM Posted Dec 15th 2009 4:38AM]

Makes you wonder why they didn't just make it 160 lenses >.>

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2009 6:05AM]

I tought the humans only had 2 eyes...

[ajoan0077 Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:00PM]

3D POV porn!!!!

[Ibrahim Posted Dec 16th 2009 4:51AM]

@edwardchow
It is Sony :D