Adobe "Bug-Eyed" Plenoptic Lenses Can Focus After The Shot

[Alby_da_Wolf]

HappySqurriel said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Amazing, but making the tiny lenses suitable for high res and high quality won't be easy, the suitable machinery to grind them will have to be devised, perfected and then finely tuned during actual production.

But the individual images themselves don't have to be particularly high resolution to create high resolution images ...

In university one of my friends created what he called a stutter camera. Essentially, he took a very low resolution web-camera, hooked it up to a bunch of motors, and by slightly turning and rotating the camera and blending the images together he was able to make a much higher resolution image. His application was only suitable for still images but conceptually it isn't that much different for what would be required here.

True, but they cannot be glass bottoms either, and grinding hundreds or thousands tiny lenses can share only a part of the tech used to grind single ones, the current lathes used for single lenses would need heavy modifications. However, from what I read on Wiki, currently the resolution is quite low, what they are experimenting them for are different issues, mainly involving motion pictures, not static ones.