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Adobe's Plenoptic technology can refocus your photos after you shoot them
If you've ever taken a blurry photo and wished you had focused it differently, Adobe's new Plenoptic technology could be just what you need. It combines a custom lens for your camera and a software component for your Mac or PC, and allows you to focus on anything you want, after you've shot the photo. I'm not clear on all the technical details, but the basic idea is that Plenoptic captures hundreds of miniature versions of your image, which it then uses to construct the larger image.So, you're not really changing the focus of your image with Plentoptic, you're actually rebuilding an entirely new image where the focus is on a different plane. That way, you can choose to accentuate the foreground or the background of the image without losing any detail.
This is some serious future-flying-car-magic tech we're talking about. It's not commercially available yet, but it's awesome to see what we'll be able to do with digital photographs in the future.
See a demo in the video below, via LaptopMag.
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Subscribe to commentsMatt GiacomazzoSep 24th 2010 10:30PM
Finally a use for the the overabundance of the mega-pixels.
PaulSep 25th 2010 2:59AM
I'm glad you guys linked this. My full reaction is on my blog (http://scribblingit.com/2010/09/25/a-revolution-in-photography-is-coming/), but the short of it is that this will truly change the way we deal with images.
hazardSep 25th 2010 8:49AM
I'm guessing the image taken for the demo was with the raytrix camera which also has a custom sensor for the job. ie don't expect to get this sort of performance even with $10000+ DSLR.
Andrew PollackSep 25th 2010 6:38PM
Cool! Can it do the whole "turn this 16 x 16 pixel ATM camera shot of the bad guy into a fully rendered 3D wireframe so we can identify the bad guy" thing?
tracker1Sep 26th 2010 3:37AM
This is really impressive, and in 10 years or so, when it's in lower-end consumer grade cameras, that will be awesome... Of course, at that point we will be seeing this kind of thing with video, and then we'll *REALLY* need some big-ass hard drives.