Metamaterial camera needs no lens…you can’t go more mirrorless than that :)

We all like mirrorless cameras but I never thought we could go so far to also get rid of the glass of the lens to take images. Engineers at Duke University now created a metamaterial imaging sensor that doesn’t require a lens to generate a picture. Engadget reports: “The sensor is a flexible copper-plated sheet patterned with small squares that capture various light frequencies all at once, functioning like one big aperture. Add a few circuits with a pinch of software and the sensor-only camera can produce up to ten images per second, but the catch is Duke’s only works at microwave frequencies. Microwave imaging is used plenty, however, and due to its flexibility and lack of moving parts, the sensor could be used to build better integrated, cheaper airport scanners and vehicle collision avoidance technology — making you safer however you choose to travel. Unless you take the train. Then you’re on your own.“

This may be the future of digital Imaging…sometimes between 2170 and 2300. So keep your (real) mirrorless camera for now!