Rob Studdert wrote:
On 22 Nov 2005 at 16:05, Carlos Royo wrote:
A new amazing development in the robo-photography age?
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
Awesome, this is a real technological advance, nothing robo-about
it just the potential for better automation for the plebs and far
greater post processing scope and control for the dedicated photographer.
As a Stanford alum I read about this stuff with great interest. There's
some pretty nifty math and really nice results in the papers. This idea
does indeed look really cool. After reading one of the original papers,
however, it does appear that you can't get something for nothing. I think
that the tradeoff here is controllable depth of field for reduced absolute
resolution of the final image (compared to using the same sensor without the
microlens array).
I'll be curious to see what the first shipping production application looks
like....
--Mark
