For those who like photography, check this out!!

[Vic.P]

Some new photographic technology on the horizon and it looks pretty damn exciting i think. When it goes into production it will be a winner for sure.

[URL="http://allthingsd.com/20110621/meet-the-stealthy-start-up-that-aims-to-sharpen-focus-of-entire-camera-industry/?refcat=news"]Start-Up Lytro Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry - Ina Fried - News - AllThingsD[/URL]

Click on the video 2nd paired image down :)

[asomaro]

Damn that's clever.

I went to the main web site and reserved a camera!

Cheers,

[Rctintin]

That is genius! My wife will be able to take a picture in focus for a change!!

[challis349]

This looks extremely impressive

[Rotorhead]

I bet Fuji, Canon and Nikon and all the rest are feeling really happy now, they just got served!

[Snaaakeey]

[FONT=Tahoma]Interesting but not new. This was 1st tried (as stated in the link) back in the 80s or some such. I expect the big boys (cannon/Nikon) have looked into it before and shelved it for whatever reason (cost, tech, pic quality). I hope the image quality will be up to it as this would be a useful ability on high end cameras but I’d imaging diffraction issues would limit resolution and I bet iso sensitivity would also be a problem (crap in low light level). When sigma’s foveon sensors came out it was meant to change the photography world forever! But it hasn’t exactly caught on either. This will probably be a point and shoot camera party trick (Iphone face book) ! Still I hope it’s up to the high spec of my 5d mk2 and the Nikon stuff. RAW file sizes might get a bit large! They are already 25-30meg each. It would be great to shoot a wedding and worry about point of focus afterwards![/FONT]
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[FONT=Tahoma]Just told another photographer friend of mine about this. Think he just peed his pants ![/FONT]

[Vic.P]

[QUOTE=Snaaakeey;677466][FONT=Tahoma]Interesting but not new. This was 1st tried (as stated in the link) back in the 80s or some such. I expect the big boys (cannon/Nikon) have looked into it before and shelved it for whatever reason (cost, tech, pic quality). I hope the image quality will be up to it as this would be a useful ability on high end cameras but I’d imaging diffraction issues would limit resolution and I bet iso sensitivity would also be a problem (crap in low light level). When sigma’s foveon sensors came out it was meant to change the photography world forever! But it hasn’t exactly caught on either. This will probably be a point and shoot camera party trick (Iphone face book) ! Still I hope it’s up to the high spec of my 5d mk2 and the Nikon stuff. RAW file sizes might get a bit large! They are already 25-30meg each. It would be great to shoot a wedding and worry about point of focus afterwards![/FONT]
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[FONT=Tahoma]Just told another photographer friend of mine about this. Think he just peed his pants ![/FONT][/QUOTE]

Yep, agreed it's not entirely new technology but back in the 80's processing power was well down on the current levels so it was impractical and much like mobile phones would have involved carrying a brick about with you :)
It's still early days for this technology, just look at how far DSLRs have come on in the past 10 years, Canon starting at a piddling 3.1 mega pixels with the D30 and now up to 21MP and over.

If this tech makes it over to DSLRs then i for one would be interested in having one, i envisage macro photography becoming much easier with DOF at your fingertips, no more focus stacking :)

[clubb699]

Nice post thanks for sharing