Light Field Photography

[kaelaria]

This needs flash to see the demo but looks pretty neat as a concept anyway!  http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20073206-264/start-up-lytro-tries-refocusing-camera-industry/?tag=topStories3

[feppe]

There have been tech demos of this for years, nice to see something commercial out of it!

[bill t.]

Quite a bit of mosaic visible in those images.  Which would probably limit a camera with that resolution to point & shooters.  Which begs the question, why not simply infinite depth of field?

Maybe people who shoot images for web use would benefit one from one of those...and wait a minute, isn't that about 90% of photography?  Shallow DOF does have some simplifying advantage for web imagery.

And at least it's a good discussion tool for teaching depth of field aesthetics.

[kaelaria]

I can see use for maybe product photography, like focus stacking but not needing multiple shots!

[Michael West]

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3216-adobes-plenoptic-lens-enables-refocus-magic.html

this article sheds some interesting light....on this issue

product photography at 3 megapixels per image has already been done.  it was painful back in 1994 

[Martin Kristiansen]

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3216-adobes-plenoptic-lens-enables-refocus-magic.html

this article sheds some interesting light....on this issue

product photography at 3 megapixels per image has already been done.  it was painful back in 1994 

Indeed it was very painful. Anyone remember the Kodak DCS420? Anyway focussing is not a big issue for product photography.

[kaelaria]

I guess you missed my word - CONCEPT lol