Will your microphone be a bag of potato chips someday? Maybe….

[Bill Davis]

In one of the Google Hangouts I do with editors overseas, I was trying to get one of the smarter camera guys to describe how the Lycos system actually works, and the consensus (at least in that group of high end editors) that nobody really knows enough to know for sure.

I’m not yet convinced that the system actually stores ALL the 3d information to make re-focusing truly infinite in Z space.

It seemed instead that there are still “multiple focal planes” being captured, not an infinite range?

But I could be totally off base. Does anybody know for sure?

Or has anyone seen a Lycos demo where they truly “racked” focus after the fact through a smooth variable range rather than having the viewer click on elements and having that element rack into focus?

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[Mark Suszko]

Yeah, we did a story on it once for “Innovation Now”. What the Lytro is, is a light field or plenoptic camera. You can perhaps think of it as a stereoscopic camera that cheats by using one lens… or in this case, an array of many micro-lenses – to generate the stereoscopic separation, keyed to the subject distance. That, in turn, gives you the rolling back to front control of DOF.

Got it? 🙂

[Scott Thomas]

Perhaps we’ll see this in the next release of PluralEyes. 🙂