Shoot first, to the development later, and that on any part of the image, it is now possible a new device presented Thursday by a U.S. start-up. It should be released in late 2011.
The fans are already as one of "the most important innovations in photography since the 19th century." A small U.S. start-up has just introduced the Lytro, a device called "plenoptic" whose characteristic is to the development after taking the photo.
The unit uses an image processing software to reconstruct after the fact the sharpness on the part of the selected image.
Any manual focus then becomes useless.
Lytro records all the data and provides the focal point of each ray.
Then, it is able to simulate a shift forward or backward or to one development after a photo taken.
Result, it is possible to work on focus and depth of field on a picture not at the time of the shooting but after using a computer.
Photo in 3D?
But that's not all this little gem also uses "Light Field", and can capture the entire spectrum of light from a scene on any of its points in space.
To do this, Lytro features, in addition to a conventional photo sensor, a multitude of microlenses that allow, according to its designers, to imagine the picture in three dimensions as take into account both the depth direction and angle.
The technology is based on the work of a researcher at Stanford, who published his thesis in 2006.
The startup has raised $ 50 million.
With 214 grams lighter and easy to use with only three buttons (one to turn it on, one to zoom in and the last to take the picture) and a touch screen for all settings, the device promises to make smart a carton. A gray and blue $ 399 with 8GB of capacity (or 350 photos in RAW format), and red for $ 499 16GB capacity (750 photos in RAW format, heavier than JPEG)
The fans are already as one of "the most important innovations in photography since the 19th century." A small U.S. start-up has just introduced the Lytro, a device called "plenoptic" whose characteristic is to the development after taking the photo.
The unit uses an image processing software to reconstruct after the fact the sharpness on the part of the selected image.
Any manual focus then becomes useless.
Lytro records all the data and provides the focal point of each ray.
Then, it is able to simulate a shift forward or backward or to one development after a photo taken.
Result, it is possible to work on focus and depth of field on a picture not at the time of the shooting but after using a computer.
Photo in 3D?
But that's not all this little gem also uses "Light Field", and can capture the entire spectrum of light from a scene on any of its points in space.
To do this, Lytro features, in addition to a conventional photo sensor, a multitude of microlenses that allow, according to its designers, to imagine the picture in three dimensions as take into account both the depth direction and angle.
The technology is based on the work of a researcher at Stanford, who published his thesis in 2006.
The startup has raised $ 50 million.
With 214 grams lighter and easy to use with only three buttons (one to turn it on, one to zoom in and the last to take the picture) and a touch screen for all settings, the device promises to make smart a carton. A gray and blue $ 399 with 8GB of capacity (or 350 photos in RAW format), and red for $ 499 16GB capacity (750 photos in RAW format, heavier than JPEG)
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