On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:36 AM, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:13:58AM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> If *all* the information available from the light was recorded by >> the sensor, you could do away with the lens entirely. You could >> simply expose the sensor through the empty lens mount and recreate >> the scene later with digital signal processing. (I read of some >> recent research work to do just that.) > > I've seen a presentation on it by the people doing the research. > Well, they still use a primary lens, but the sensor does all sorts > of other things with microlenses, etc.
The term to look up is "plenoptics". There's a company locally that's doing it. I didn't get past the phone interview. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
