New Camera that lets you focus AFTER you shoot?? - Interesting!

[SQflyergirl]

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gam...ml?hpt=hp_bn11

[KeithMEL]

Ooh, where do I sign up for one?! Sounds like just the camera for me, with my kind of photographic abilities (or lack thereof).

[jhm]

To throw some water on this:

http://www.bythom.com/

A New Way of Imaging?

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So what's the hype here? After-the-fact focusing. What's the downside? Well, the prototype required a 16mp sensor array to produce a 90kp image. Some similar relationship is expected for a production camera. The good news is that using so many photosites per pixel (256 if I read the papers right) also means that a number of noise-related issues go away, The implications, however, are that we need one heck of a lot of megapixels to get large sized images. Their samples appear to be no more than 360kp images.

[SQflyergirl]

To throw some water on this:

http://www.bythom.com/

Means that initial production cameras are going to be about 250kg and give me nice thumbnail sized pics ?

[jhm]

More from the same website:

Light Field is much more interesting at the cell phone camera size. It's not difficult to imagine an 8mp cell phone sensor with Lytro's array producing very high quality, no focus necessary images for Web use (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, email, etc., which is where most camera phone photos are going).

(with the 8mp resulting in a hundreds of kp)

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