Characterization of the AWARE 40 wide field of view visible imager
High resolution, wide field of view photography has undergone substantial improvements since the advent of multiscale lens design. Here, we present and evaluate a multiscale camera capable of a 10 mrad instantaneous field of view over a 36deg field of view. We experimentally verify this camera's optical performance at the individual microcamera level and report a 2.4 gigapixel panorama stitched from five snapshots. The results are consistent with the use of parallel camera arrays to produce scalable imagery at a substantial resolution range.