If you haven't already seen it following the recent tech previews, lytro's light field camera is definitely worth a look. I must admit to not having heard of light field captures before, but frankly I'm sold... I wonder if it has scope to shrink to a mobile-phone friendly size?
I can't play with one yet as they don't ship until 2012 but would love to see what the limits are - could it finally fulfill the promise of those silly CSI moments where they magnify and magically coax a pinsharp image from some nasty CCTV footage? Forget consumer point-and-shoot, light field is just perfect for that - a situation where you truly don't know where the point of interest may be, and possibly have no way of controlling it anyway?
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