Plenoptic cameras

[NewbaScuba]

Recently I had read an advertisement/article for the new Lytro plenoptic camera (Lytro plenoptic camera used for fashion shoot: Digital Photography Review). Raytrix also makes a plenoptic camera (The First Plenoptic Camera on the Market)

This is not a new concept as far as camera's go. There are limitations.

I was simply wondering how useful this would be for underwater usage, and if anyone has tried it.

 

[philmayer]

Seeing that Eric Cheng is the Dir of Photography at Lytro, I think we'll be seeing UW photos with one soon.

 

[vladimir]

I started a THREAD about this a month ago. It seems like this technology is ideally suited for underwater and other wildlife photographers, and probably sports photographers. Who else gets pictures that are out of focus? I understand portrait photographers might want to adjust the depth of field in post-processing, but that seems like a pretty limited application. If there's no time pressure and your subject isn't moving, you ought to be able to get the focus you want.

 

[NewbaScuba]

Funny, I didn't know who E. Cheng was. SO I found his web page.

Yeah. It's a good bet these will be utilized underwater at some point.