On 11/22/05, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
That's right. I was at the presentation of this paper during SIGGRAPH in August. They use a 16MP sensor, but the refocussable images are 256x256 (because they have a 16x16 uv space--those squares you see in the images in this page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fourierphoto/ So, it is a great development and implementation, but don't expect it in the next Pentax until sensors of at least another order of magnitude as the current ones are common. j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
