Startup company Lytro is claiming to be close to launching a camera that allows any point of focus to be specified after the shot is taken. The concept behind the device, called a light-field, or plenoptic camera camera has surfaced regularly over the past few years, but now Lytro, founded by Stanford PhD Ren Ng, says it will have a product ready within a year. The concept uses a series of microlenses to split the incoming light rays across multiple sensor pixels, depending on the angle from which it arrived. This additional information about the angle of the arriving light makes it possible to recalculate different focus points after the image has been shot, but at the cost of lower image resolution. The company hasn’t, as yet, provided details such as its system’s output resolution. (From the New York Times)
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Photos you can refocus: Lytro promises camera within a year
Fujifilm camera chief adds weight to interchangeable lens rumors
The head of Fujifilm’s camera division has suggested the company may make a return to interchangeable lens cameras. In an interview with news agency Reuters, Takeshi Higuchi stressed the importance of launching ‘luxury’ models to help establish the company as a high-profile brand. In addition he discusses the company’s reasoning for looking beyond China for manufacturing. However, his comments about having the in-house capabilities to develop its own cameras may reduce the speculation about the company producing models for pre-existing camera systems.
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Flood Fight
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Annie Goes Boating – 3D Trailer
trailer for Annie Goes Boating, a 3D short premiering at SXSW 2010, starring Alessandra Torresani, Alycia Delmore, Davie-Blue, Taylor Maxwell, Sam Wilson, and Sophia Goldfarb directed by Noel Paul, 2D trailer: www.vimeo.com imdb: www.imdb.com shot in DepthQ stereoscopic. www.depthq.com . .
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At the playground | Reality (HD timelapse 1080p)
Miniature scenes from the ocean, Gothenburg city and Strömstad all on the Swedish west coast. All edits and post processing done on a wee MacBook Pro 13″. Most of the scenes with zoom and pan are output as 3K (3072 x 1728) high-res intermediate videos downsampled in iMovie by the simple Ken Burns crop tool. I shot around 10.000 RAW-images for the film but not all of them ended up in the final editing. I used a homemade rapid interval timer for some of the scenes, shooting continous up to 3 frames/sec for smooth motion. Footage stabilization and deflickering managed in VirtualDub with the Deflicker and Deshaker plugins. For the tilt-shift effect I used Alien Skin Software’s plugin ‘Bokeh’ in Photoshop, some of the scenes were processed with their latest plugin ‘Exposure 3’ for filmic looks in classic Technicolor. Let me just say it took ages to develop and render thousands of high-res frames… Equipment used: Nikon D300 / D300s, Nikkor AF-S 70-200/2.8 VR, Nikkor AF-S 17-55/2.8, Nikon TC-17EII Teleconverter, DIY Nikon 10-pin Rapid Interval Timer (RIT), Manfrotto 035 SuperClamp w/ ball head 488RC2, Manfrotto 745B video tripod. Uploaded as 2K high-res x264 for best vertical detail at 1080p and 720p.
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Olympus E-P3 samples gallery updated with revised settings
We’ve added three additional images to our samples gallery for the Olympus E-P3 with revised processing. Following concerns expressed about the levels of noise reduction and sharpening being applied by the camera’s default settings, we have re-processed the images with the sharpening and noise reduction minimized. Having confirmed that re-processing raw files in-camera gave the same results as shooting natively at these settings, we re-processed three of our gallery images to allow side-by-side comparison with the default settings.
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Fern Leaves, Yosemite National Park
Yosemite provides an endless well of inspiration, even more so if you stop looking up. Tough to do, but always enlightening when it happens. On a casual walk amidst burnt trees on the valley floor the wind was kind enough to introduce me to some beautiful ferns. The next time you’re walking in your favorite location I recommend listening to the wind as you never know what it’ll introduce you to.
Fern Leaves, Yosemite National Park
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