On May 23, 2007, at 9:35 AM, John Francis wrote: > ... perhaps the > research that Pat Hanrahan's group are doing over at Stanford on a > camera that captures more than just a single plane of focus. It's a > little early to tell, but I suspect the tradeoff in lower resolution > may relegate this to little more than an interesting experiment. ...
I was at a presentation of the plenoptic camera technology a few months (or was it a year?) ago. Practical implementations is predicated on the notion that within the next few years there will be available cost-effective sensors with 100Mpixel or more, essentially excess resolution for practical use with current imaging systems. Bending that excess resolution to recording direction vector information gives access to whole new dimensions in image capture. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
