World record for lenses

Guinness World Records has certified a Japanese researcher?s camera as having the most lenses in the world at 158.

Yojiro Ishino of the Nagoya Institute of Technology created the super camera with his students last August to photograph flames from many different angles to better understand their strucure.

The research goal is to find more efficient ways of burning fuel for engines.

The camera images can be used to create realistic computer-generated graphics of the flames in 3D. Ishino created a lowerres camera with only 40 lenses in 2003.

Each lens cost about 200 yen, or just $2.24, and the team bought 800 lenses for the project. Guinness required that each of the 158 lenses in the camera was operational before certifying the machine.