New camera always takes perfectly focused photos

http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/22/6918208-new-camera-always-takes-perfectly-focused-photos

By Rosa Golijan

Sometimes — no matter how hard you try — you don't manage to set the focus on a camera perfectly and you miss capturing something you wanted to see again and again. Thanks to a new camera technology though, such incidents will be a thing of the past.

The technology is called light field photography and it's being developed by a company called Lytro — and it will blow your mind:

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two-dimensions, light field cameras captures all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact. To acquire this additional data, Lytro cameras include an innovative new light field sensor that captures the color, intensity and vector direction of light rays.

You read that right. Photos taken with these new light field cameras can be refocused after being shot. Don't think that could possibly benefit you, an expert shutterbug, in real life? Think again and watch this video: [See the original article for the video]

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Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two-dimensions, light field cameras captures all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact. To acquire this additional data, Lytro cameras include an innovative new light field sensor that captures the color, intensity and vector direction of light rays.

You read that right. Photos taken with these new light field cameras can be refocused after being shot. Don't think that could possibly benefit you, an expert shutterbug, in real life? Think again and watch this video: [see original article for the video]

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