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Light Field Camera - Lytro
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Hey guys, I'm a bit wary after the invisible camera, but this one looks interesting. Apparently Lytro are out to produce a light field camera, which somehow captures the "light field" of the scene.

Quote:Recording light fields requires an innovative, entirely new kind of sensor called a light field sensor. The light field sensor captures the color, intensity and vector direction of the rays of light. This directional information is completely lost with traditional camera sensors, which simply add up all the light rays and record them as a single amount of light.
http://blog.lytro.com/

Quote:By substituting powerful software for many of the internal parts of regular cameras, light field processing introduces new capabilities that were never before possible. Sophisticated algorithms use the full light field to unleash new ways to make and view pictures.
One of the applications you can try out on their site is the manipulation of focal points after the picture is taken - so you can focus on the background or the object in the foreground. Apparently there could be potentially an expanded depth of field as well which allows the whole scene to be in focus.

If this is real, then there would be so many ramifications for digital photography - imagine sitting in photoshop tweaking curves and contrast in addition to adjusting focal planes and areas as well to get the best subject isolation.
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Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Jun 22, 2011, 19:34
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Feb 29, 2012, 21:16
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Toad - Mar 1, 2012, 00:13
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by NT73 - Mar 1, 2012, 05:43
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Scottbad - Mar 7, 2012, 11:49
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Zig - Jun 23, 2011, 01:48
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Oct 19, 2011, 17:15
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by NT73 - Oct 19, 2011, 18:32
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Toad - Oct 19, 2011, 19:09
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Adormi - Feb 16, 2013, 03:02
RE: Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Adormi - Feb 17, 2013, 03:16
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Oct 19, 2011, 23:26
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Oct 25, 2011, 18:48
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by matthew - Oct 25, 2011, 19:14
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by Toad - Oct 25, 2011, 19:17
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Oct 25, 2011, 20:58
Light Field Camera - Lytro - by shuttertalk - Jan 22, 2012, 22:33

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