On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 07:30 +0700, Roger, in Bangkok wrote:
> ... exceedingly cool!
> http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery

Doesn't seem to work properly in Firefox for me, works great with
Chrome.

It's very cool tech. You basically give up resolution for post focusing.

It also allows one to build fixed focus cameras (much less complicated
lenses) that deal with focus afterwards (i.e. cell phone cameras).

At the moment the tech is very limiting, I think with a modern ~15MP
sensor you end up with pictures of VGA resolution. So we've a ways to
go.

That said, when 100MP+ sensors become mainstream (assuming the all the
issues with sensors with such tiny receive sites are sorted) this will
be very cool tech that likely every camera will eventually have (like
today where you can post process white balance and colour, you'll be
able to post process your focus).

TTYL

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