tlitody
Well-known
Just what you wanted to hear. Now you can focus after you've taken the shot. Everything is done in post.
http://lytro.com/about/index.html
http://lytro.com/about/index.html
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rpsawin
Guest
LOL...your only real task is to carry your computational imagining device and aim it in a halfway decent manner. Thank GOD all that pressure of knowing what you are doing has been relieved!
Best regards,
Bob
Paul Luscher
Well-known
Be careful. Says it's an "early-stage" company. Besides, anyone can put anything up on the web. Doesn't mean it's real. I remember "digital film," which turned out to be nothing but vaporware, as they say.
But if it IS true, well, bully for them. Progress and technology do not stand still...
But if it IS true, well, bully for them. Progress and technology do not stand still...
illuminati_02
Established
Just as long as the device looks cool to carry too.
krötenblender
Well-known
Well, I do not know about that company, but the technology exists and light-field-photography is possible. Watch this video from a NVidia-conference last fall: http://livesmooth.istreamplanet.com/nvidia100921/
Starting at 1:20 a guy from Adobe starts to talk about the technology. The drawback is the awfully low resolution currently and the high processing power needed. Maybe in some years...
I guess, for snap-shooters, this will be an interesting technology in some years, but for people who go after a Leica or any RF, light-field-simply misses the point: at least I do not want this. Either it's that moment and that pictue, or it's gone, and that is the way, it should be, for me...
Starting at 1:20 a guy from Adobe starts to talk about the technology. The drawback is the awfully low resolution currently and the high processing power needed. Maybe in some years...
I guess, for snap-shooters, this will be an interesting technology in some years, but for people who go after a Leica or any RF, light-field-simply misses the point: at least I do not want this. Either it's that moment and that pictue, or it's gone, and that is the way, it should be, for me...
Ade-oh
Well-known
Can I fit the sensor in my Leica IIIc? ...OK, only joking.
This looks like a kind of HDR but with focus - but I'm guessing huge files, and probably a novelty rather than a serious force in photography: useful for the professional photographer who doesn't know how to focus his images.
This looks like a kind of HDR but with focus - but I'm guessing huge files, and probably a novelty rather than a serious force in photography: useful for the professional photographer who doesn't know how to focus his images.
They finally invented the camera that Pecker used to make all those images. I knew the Canonet QIII could somehow be modified. Love to see this hack!
ferider
Veteran
All you need for this is a stereo lens (as already available from Olympus for u4/3), deep DOF and software.
Roland.
Roland.
dogberryjr
[Pithy phrase]
I wonder if the computational imaging device will be available in black paint.
LeicaFoReVer
Addicted to Rangefinders
Adobe works on something similar. It was in one of the old threads. It works with a lens composed of 100s of micro lenses with different DOF. So camera records all range. Something like that.
ItsReallyDarren
That's really me
Auto Bokeh Focus, when auto focus isn't enough.
I remember reading an article with technology similar to this, in a popular science magazine years ago. The technology may not be the same but the idea of selecting your DoF in post processing sounds familiar.
I remember reading an article with technology similar to this, in a popular science magazine years ago. The technology may not be the same but the idea of selecting your DoF in post processing sounds familiar.
PMCC
Late adopter.
Let's start a bag thread for this.
tlitody
Well-known
No need. It'll fit into your shades. You just look at what you want photograph and wink to take the shot
The Standard Deviant
inanimated.co.uk
I think you could do this on film by creating a holograhic plate/sheet film and then taking a photo looking through the reprojected hologram.
Snapper_uk
Well-known
And I thought Hipstamatic was the work of the Devil....
Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
I'm waiting for the new NIK software
I'm waiting for the new NIK software
Nik gave us Silver Efex to simulate b&w film, then Color Efex to simulate your favorite color film. Now I'm waiting for "Optics Efex" with which I'll be able to apply the "Noctilux v.2" effect to my RAW files. Definitely be available within the next 3 years... my forecasts have never been wrong.
I'm waiting for the new NIK software
Nik gave us Silver Efex to simulate b&w film, then Color Efex to simulate your favorite color film. Now I'm waiting for "Optics Efex" with which I'll be able to apply the "Noctilux v.2" effect to my RAW files. Definitely be available within the next 3 years... my forecasts have never been wrong.
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
I've read far-advanced theory about this some years ago, on a web page from an Asian student to a US university. Can't recall more.
I fiddled the slider on the webpage the OP points to but gotta say, the foreground can be had sharp, while with the middle background and background, one can only achieve realative sharpness. A picture taken with a real lens and a real camera and properly focused probably (likely) would have turned out a sharper image.
But ofcourse the invention is under construction, blabla.
Anyway, I accept useless Leica glass now, all expenses paid including shipping!
I fiddled the slider on the webpage the OP points to but gotta say, the foreground can be had sharp, while with the middle background and background, one can only achieve realative sharpness. A picture taken with a real lens and a real camera and properly focused probably (likely) would have turned out a sharper image.
But ofcourse the invention is under construction, blabla.
Anyway, I accept useless Leica glass now, all expenses paid including shipping!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Bit late for that statement I would have thought with the amount of in camera processing power that's already available in the top range DSLR's.
Mister E
Well-known
Your not a photographer unless you shoot on mercury-etched, glass plates.
TaoPhoto
Documentary Photographer
They finally invented the camera that Pecker used to make all those images. I knew the Canonet QIII could somehow be modified. Love to see this hack!
I knew he had something up his sleeve! I thought he used a Canonet 28, though. Either way, from the look of the enlargements in his gallery show, he had some post-process that was way ahead of its time!