15Jul/11Off
Lytro Announces Light Field Camera
Philip Lelyveld comment: this story brings more technical perspective to this important tech announcement.
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Computational photography using light field reconstruction has been a research topic for a number of years. One of the problems with computational photography is the very large amount of data associated with a high-resolution image.
...Since no specifications on the camera are available, it is not clear if the proposed point-and-shoot camera is also a pocket camera.
...Another problem with computational photography is that it doesn’t produce a viewable image until after the "computational" part.
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