Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] The plenoptic camera
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Nov 23 07:14:55 2005
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This might get OT, but

There is a very realistic chance that in the near future the quality  
of photography will not depend on lens quality (or body quality)  
anymore, but entirely on software: bye bye to distortion, abberation,  
out of focus, wrongly chosen DOF, ISO setting etc. Which is a good  
thing, because:
-) it will make acceptable photography accessible to virtually  
everybody.
-) it will raise the average quality of photographs made.
-) it will make stand out the good photographers (those with 'the  
eye') anyhow, even if the final result will be obtained after the  
photo is made.
We truly live in great and exiting times, wether they are called fin  
de si?cle, d?but de si?cle or interbellum, IMO.



Op 23-nov-05, om 15:50 heeft Frank Filippone het volgende geschreven:

> First we start with a digitally taken image where there are 3  
> sensors to
> establish color, then meld them together to get a combined color  
> for an
> approximate image pixel location.  Then we compute the focus plane by
> interperting those pixels into a new image.  After this we compute  
> more
> pixels to print.
>
> Which ones are the original pixels?
>
> Seriously, this is a really great advance.  If this technique can be
> harvested into a consumer grade and jiurnalist grade product, this may
> become the new P+S camera platform.  It saves on pixel resolution  
> and puts
> most of the burden of image taking to print on the power of a  
> processor.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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