Lytro

I was going to say this is old and since we haven't heard anything in ages the company is dead. But it seems the company is hanging on and have a new product.

The tech is very cool but still too early. Focusing after the fact, choosing DoF at home, using tilt shift from your desk, and creating true 3D images are all very cool.

But 1.25MP on a 1" sensor is not great and ultimately it will be very hard to get this figue much higher.

I also just wonder if alternative 3D tech would just surpass this. Obviously there are steers optic solutions but there are more esoteric devices out there including sending a bright laser pulse out from a kind of flash and measuring the time of flight of photons reflecting back on to a an array of single photon cascade diodes. Also possible to do a focus stacking technique. Once you have the image in colour as well as depth then you can play with simulated DoF and focus as long as the raw colour information was captured at high DoF.


Anyway, computational photography is definitely the future. So much you can do through combining images. You can take an average to get better lower light, if the sensor is shifted you can combine to create higher resolution (think stitching a panoramic but instead of stiching you just add pixels to the same scene taken from slightly shifted sensor, e.g shift the sensor half a pixel width) and with movement you can create 3D scenes.
 
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