Interesting new type of camera

[RogerM]

Here's an interesting new type of camera that records light in 3D rather than 2D:

https://www.lytro.com/camera

That means you can focus any part of the images after taking them - try clicking anywhere in these shots to see it working:

http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures

 

[chunkolini]

Interesting but a gimmick.
Two ways for it to work?
I reckon either it is taking a picture with a wide angle lense and small aperture to give a massive depth of field and then applying a blur filter or whatever to give the effect of selective focus.
or it is taking the equivalent of three photos at larger apertures and layering them, you focus on a specific area in the image and it chooses that area of focus.
Looks like stuff you can do with an SLR camera, ok one picture per set up.
Chunko'.

 

[RogerP]

Interesting but a gimmick.
Two ways for it to work?
I reckon either it is taking a picture with a wide angle lense and small aperture to give a massive depth of field and then applying a blur filter or whatever to give the effect of selective focus.
or it is taking the equivalent of three photos at larger apertures and layering them, you focus on a specific area in the image and it chooses that area of focus.
Looks like stuff you can do with an SLR camera, ok one picture per set up.
Chunko'.

I'm afraid you're way, way off

here

or here

 

[woodpig]

"However, it is understood that megarays do not translate to megapixels, and final image quality may be considerably less than that of conventional digital cameras"

Don't think I'll bother then ...

 

[Harbo]

There was a feature about it on the box a couple of months ago.
Not quite as good as it is cracked out to be?
Still lots of issues to overcome before it is viable but a very interesting concept.


Rod

 

[Eric The Viking]

Fascinating technology, although the Wikipedia entry makes the reasonable point that the resulting image is very low resolution. You don't get something for nothing as far as information theory is concerned.

Meanwhile, the largest single image I produced this week was about 550MB, before compression...

... complete PITA to process on the PC.

 

[bugbear]

There was a feature about it on the box a couple of months ago.
Not quite as good as it is cracked out to be?
Still lots of issues to overcome before it is viable but a very interesting concept.


Rod

Might find a niche in surveillance work.

BugBear