The Us start-up Lytro promises later this year, a camera on the market where it is no longer necessary for the lens to focus. When the shot images, the photographer can afterwards the desired focal point choose.
Lytro has, say, a whole new technology for photography was developed, allowing for light fields can be found. While traditional sensors, the directional cues of light beams is lost, which is a 2d picture, the Lytro developed micro lens array such information in the form of vectordata can capture.
The micro lens array consists of a series of sequentially placed lenses between the hoofdlens and the image sensor are placed. To the depth information to process, with the help of special algorithms in retrospect the exact focus point in a picture are determined. Thereby, the photographer can himself to the desired composition search. Also, it should be possible to get the brightness to adjust, while photos in combination with 3d displays, also in three dimensions, rotated, and rotated.
Click on the part that is sharp is to be displayed
One of the main advantages of the new technology is, according to the start-up that taking a picture is no longer in focus need to be. Because of this, there is no more time wasted on manually focusing or waiting for autofocus of a camera. In addition, would the sensor by a high degree of light sensitivity also better able to make photos in bad lighting conditions.
According to Lytro, the files that are new camera produces, despite the additional image information, that is not substantially greater than existing graphic formats. This would partly be due to the camera, which is not yet publicly been shown, with powerful image processors is equipped.
The first camera from Lytro that uses the new technology for displaying images by the end of this year on the market. The start-up was founded after Ren Ng, the current ceo, in 2006 in his thesis, the basic theory of the technology used described. With the help of hundreds of cameras that supercomputers were linked, he knew then the appropriate algorithms to develop and the right lens technology build. With a geldinjectie of $ 50 million from venture capitalists, began Ng on the development of a camera for the consumer market.