Along with the world's longest dreadlock (8 feet and 6 inches) and the tallest cellphone (15 feet), a camera with 158-lenses has found a place in the Guinness World Records.
A professor at Japan's Nagoya Institute of Technology developed the camera to capture images of a flickering flame from different angles.
Ishino Yojiro, an associate professor at the Nagoya Institute, along with his students, took about six months to put together the project that won the record for having the largest number of lenses in a camera.
Each of the lenses cost just $2.25 (200 yen). The lenses were assembled in four rows on the camera’s body and mounted on a semicircular arc-like aluminum frame. Though the team reportedly bought 800 lenses for the camera, only 158 made it to the final version.
Ultimately, the researchers hope to create 3D images from the photographs to better understand the efficiency of burning fuel--the area that Yojiro specializes in.
Though all the lenses are operational--a requirement for the Guinness certification--no images taken from the camera have yet been released.
[Sankei News via CrunchGear]
Photo: The 158-lens camera/Nagoya Institute of Technology
