I wonder if that sort of pixel density could make light field feasible. Rather than trying to do what lytro is use the technique to correct for optical aberrations.
Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: > >> Can you get anything useful from 41 MP sensor in a phone camera? >> I mean, - even if the tamed the noise in the sensor of this small >size, >> wouldn't the optics be the bottleneck? >> >> Nokia is making one now (Windows phone): >> http://goo.gl/EwIOpd > >The explanation I read is that it was designed to give a good-quality >digital zoom (at ~5 MP). > >The idea is that you design a wide-angle fixed-focal-length lens that >has very good sharpness in the center, and not-so-good on the edges. >(This is, of course, a lot easier than designing a lens that's >excellent to the edge.) For the long end of the digital zoom, you crop >5 MP from the center of the sensor. You do OK, because that's where >the lens is very good. For the wide end of the digital zoom, you use >the whole sensor, and you downsample to 5 MP, which the lens can >provide well enough edge-to-edge. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
