The K3: the 64 GP massive matrix array holographic data reconstruction 125X zoom mirrorless Captain Marvel camera.
Powered by a small pink spacetime singularly. $150 rebate coupon. Now accepting preorders. -----Original Message----- From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:33:26 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New camera technology touted at TOP 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. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3718 - Release Date: 06/21/11 -- 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. -- 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.
