So, does this mean I should hold off on my plans to get the K3 (or
whatever it's going to be called) once it comes out?
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
The plenoptic concept is making the rounds today. At least 14 people
have sent me notes about it. I've been tracking this technology from
the first discussions and talks about it in 2006ish, IIRC.
The idea is simple: Instead of capturing only spatial information from
the incoming light, capture the vector information as well. That
allows for in-process focus adjustment and more sophisticated image
correction processing. It's not 3D or holography, it's more
information with which to focus and render the image.
The downside of this is all technical. You generally need about 10x as
many photo receptors to produce a given number of finished image
pixels ... so a 12 Mpixel image relies on having somewhere around
120-144 million photosites behind them to capture both spatial and
vector data. Similarly, the image processing and data handling systems
have to be suitably robust to handle that amount of incoming data...
It's interesting, but I think that the big news is that some money is
being handed to Ted Ng now to develop his prototypes into a viable
production camera. The technology curve is catching up to the needs of
this kind of capture and processing, so a new game in photography
could happen in the near future.
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