Deepsound Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Hand-held plenoptic camera Have you been told about that technology ? Just terrific... That technology allows both the picture taker and the viewer to focus pictures AFTER they’re snapped, shift their perspective of the scene, and even switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D views. It is not another photoshop effect or something. Depth of field informations are recorded inside the image. You can choose how to focus your picture after shooting then re-focus it often as you want, on any area of the picture. This is achieved by inserting a microlens array between the sensor and main lens, creating a plenoptic camera. You can try it on-line here. - Vid 1 - Vid 2 - Vid 3 Light-field technology was developed back in the 1990s, and initially required 100 cameras attached to a supercomputer... This company wants to make an affordable hand-held plenoptic camera ! Theory "Conventional cameras do not record most of the information about the light distribution entering from the world. The goal of the camera presented in this paper is to re-capture this lost information: to measure not just a 2D photograph of the total amount of light at each point on the photosensor, but rather the full 4D light field measuring the amount of light traveling along each ray that intersects the sensor. One can also think of this as capturing the directional lighting distribution arriving at each location on the sensor". - Paper from Stanford University) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Let's imagine that for a movie as Avatar we can see in 3D. Then, with an appropriate sensor, we will be able to focus on different levels too. This technology could be also used in HD medical / scientific imagery as well ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 That's pretty neat. Would be perfect for full tank shots in a busy tank, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 That is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Ok.. that is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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