On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Brian Lawson wrote: > On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:01 AM, richardsan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:32 AM, John D <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/technology/22camera.html?ref=technology >> >> wow...i bet a lot of us suffer out of focus shots...or maybe just us old >> farts ... > > I wonder how depth of field will be handled, not just the focal point but how > much space in front and behind that focal point is in focus.
Given that it seems to capture every plane in focus, I presume it's some sort of progressive gaussian blurring around the boundaries of the 'in focus' planes. Sort of like a photoshop DOF filter on steroids. Reading the article it says this is all done in post, working on the raw images, although I'd wager there was some amount of it that could be done (again post) but in camera, like all those other 8,345 effects built into the average camera that no one ever, ever uses...I mean, how many Sepia toned photos have YOU exported from your camera? "The company’s technology allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it is taken. While viewing a picture taken with a Lytro camera on a computer screen, you can, for example, click to bring people in the foreground into sharp relief, or switch the focus to the mountains behind them." This technology will also allow some really novel effects that can only be gotten by compositing multiple images today, like having two depths in focus in a single image...a face in the foreground and one in the background in focus simultaneously, with proper DOF in between. You could simulate this pretty easily with adjustment layers and some judicious masking in Photoshop right now, but it would be hard to get it right. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
