Imaging recource: Microsoft’s new curved sensors promise dramatic improvement for compact cameras

If you take a look at your camera, be it a traditional one or the one in your cell phone, you'll notice that its sensor is flat. This is and has been the design choice for sensors since the beginning of the digital age, but Microsoft has developed a new take on the sensor that they think will dramatically improve image quality... so much so that even small sensors can have the quality we are used to seeing in large sensors. The main difference is that it is curved, and this curve helps the sensor better correct for aberrations and...
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