{"id":36214,"date":"2021-12-08T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36214"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:21:43","slug":"this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36214","title":{"rendered":"This new ultra-compact camera is the size of a grain of salt and takes stunning photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ultra_Compact_Camera-300x122.png\" alt=\"Ultra Compact Camera\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ultra_Compact_Camera-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ultra_Compact_Camera-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ultra_Compact_Camera.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The salt-grain-sized camera.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny \u2013 the same size as a grain of salt \u2013 it&#8217;s also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Using a technology known as a metasurface, which is covered with 1.6 million cylindrical posts, the camera is able to capture full-color photos that are as good as images snapped by conventional lenses some half a million times bigger than this particular camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The salt-grain-sized camera. Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny \u2013 the same size as a grain of salt \u2013 it&#8217;s also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras. Using a technology known as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This new ultra-compact camera is the size of a grain of salt and takes stunning photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36216,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36214\/revisions\/36216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}