Digital Photography Innovation
An innovative new technology has the potential to transform the world of digital photography. The light field camera from the Silicon Valley firm Lytro does something that no other digital camera can do.
It is the first camera to feature a light field sensor which can process the different light dimensions, including color, vector direction and intensity of light rays. What this means in practical terms is that the camera captures details of an image in a more realistic way than has ever been possible. This camera can capture every detail in a scene, and the camera then allows you to zoom in on any particular spot and the photo will refocus around it much like the human eye does. Lytro calls these new type of photographs "living pictures", because they allow the viewer to refocus the image to look at the scene from various perspectives, rather than just the original perspective it was shot from.