“Light Field” Imaging, Lytro, and the Future of Digital Photos
Rob’s recent post over at Boing Boing drew my attention to Ren Ng’s startup, Lytra, which is developing a digital imaging technology that requires no moving parts to focus an image at any depth of field–even infinite. It’s called “light field” photography, and, besides eliminating failure-prone moving assemblies from cameras, it will let you refocus your pictures however you want, as many times as you want, after they’ve already been taken.
