On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:57:45PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > [Default] On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:58:30 +0300, Bulent Celasun > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >It seems to be capable of altering some phototographic approaches radically. > >I expect dramatic contributions to macrophotography of static objects, > >for example. > >Sports photography may need some more time, though... > > Yep. Apparently you get a ~12:1 reduction in resolution in return for > this post-shot focus capability: Your 24-megapixel sensor becomes a 2 > -megapixel sensor. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.
Well, another turn of the wheel (or another couple of years) will double the number of pixels, which will get it up into the reasonable range for something a bit larger than a web image. And you can actually do a little better in software, if you tweak it for resolution rather than increased DOF or dynamic focus. Or at least that's what the researchers said when they gave a presentation at a Silicon Valley SIGGraph meeting last year. By 2015 we'll probably have a plenoptic camera that outperforms my *ist-D. Signal-to-noise ratios will still be far below what a K-5 can manage, but the *ist-D is lacking in that department, too. That didn't stop me getting some pretty good images with it between 2003 and 2006, though. -- 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.
