Science Fiction become Science Fact – Picture the scene:

The future has arrived! A plenoptic lens is composed of loads of tiny “sub-lenses,” which allow you to record an image from multiple focus planes all at the same time. The result is that you get so much data in your image that it can all add up to create an “infinite” depth of field. With an image taken with a Plenoptic Lens you can choose the distance at which you want your image to be focused after you have taken it! These plenoptic lenses fit between your camera’s usual lens and its sensor. Once you have taken your image with this lens Adobe have written the software that will allow you to choose your focus, this means that you may never need to take an out of focus image again, unless of course that’s what you choose.

As if that wasn’t enough this technology will let users create 3D images on the fly as well.

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The cost unfortunately is prohibitive to it being available on the market at the moment, and the software is still in development but here is a sneak preview of the future.

Now for all you techy peeps!

How Plenoptic Lenses Work

A Plenoptic lens consists of hundreds of tiny lenses, these are put between a camera’s lens and the image sensor.

It looks like this – The lens is on the left; that large round object is a pin head:

Using the Plenoptic lens the camera’s sensor records what looks like a loads of fragmented images, but each fragment contains more information about individual light rays entering the camera.

Traditional cameras record rays of light entering the lens and this information gets recorded on a specific spot, see below:

Because of the tiny little lenses in front of the sensor, the resulting image looks like a pixelated image with several 1000s of tiny images.

When post-processed it is possible to choose to render an image with any element in focus.

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