No lens?

What would a photo look like without a lens? Why not have a big sensor on the back of a mobile phone with no lens...

Heard of pinhole photography?

No lens?? You would just have a blob of nothing. Even the pinhole of a pinhole camera is a lens of sorts.

OK, stand with your back to the window and hold up a blank white sheet of paper. Tell me about the "image" you see on the paper of the view out of the window.

Brilliant idea. All the aberation in the pictures are caused by the lens imperfections, remove the lens - no abberations.
But evil engineers at Canon, Nikon etc. specifically designed the cameras so it just will not take a pictures unless the lens is attached. I guess it is a purely marketing decision to force the consumer buy lenses !
We should get together and write a petition to foce them to remove that feature !

Papa Carlo wrote in post #7735020
Brilliant idea. All the aberation in the pictures are caused by the lens imperfections, remove the lens - no abberations.
But evil engineers at Canon, Nikon etc. specifically designed the cameras so it just will not take a pictures unless the lens is attached. I guess it is a purely marketing decision to force the consumer buy lenses !
We should get together and write a petition to foce them to remove that feature !

LOL that is a good one.

motoroller wrote in post #7734835
Why not have a big sensor on the back of a mobile phone with no lens...

(Disclaimer: I don't work for Google)

Your ideas get taken seriously here at Google. We have a prototype already out. Suggestions on how to improve it are welcome.

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outbri wrote in post #7735617
(Disclaimer: I don't work for Google)

Your ideas get taken seriously here at Google. We have a prototype already out. Suggestions on how to improve it are welcome.

I have a suggestion

IT WONT FIT IN MY POCKET :O

gasrocks wrote in post #7735018
OK, stand with your back to the window and hold up a blank white sheet of paper. Tell me about the "image" you see on the paper of the view out of the window.

HAHA...I don't know if that's meant to be funny but that just made my day

motoroller wrote in post #7734835
What would a photo look like without a lens?

Set your camera to Manual, take off the lens, and fire off a shot. See what you get....

KenjiS wrote in post #7735783
I have a suggestion

IT WONT FIT IN MY POCKET :O

That's why you take the lens off.
And if the lens is too bulky to carry around you take a picture with the above described no-lens technique.

outbri wrote in post #7737048
That's why you take the lens off.
And if the lens is too bulky to carry around you take a picture with the above described no-lens technique.

But then my discrete pornography will be all blurry