Refocusing an image after it has been taken?
Will 2008 see a new generation of cameras that allow viewers to refocus an image after it has been captured?
Refocus Imaging, a Stanford University spinoff, is licensing lens and software technology that can do just that! An array of micro lenses between the lens and sensor capture all the focus fields at once. Viewers can then move a slider accompanying the image file (which will be a new format) and refocus each image file at will - an entirely new end-user experience.
According to Refocus Imaging, their Digital Lens platform requires only two changes to a conventional camera:
- A new microlens array in front of the sensor
- Refocus’ proprietary software
The incremental change in hardware creates an enormous increase in the power of the recorded light. A conventional camera records only the average value of the many light rays striking each pixel. A Refocusing Digital Lens camera records each of the individual light rays, providing much more information to compute better pictures.
I would really love to study photography one day and it is one of my dreams to capture people and give life to all the photos I am going to take. I am slowly learning and I have no idea how to refocus imaging yet so I think that I should need to buy the right camera for this or any camera would do?