Light Field Photography

When I was in Junior High I thought about various types of cool 'future technologies'. Technologies like guns that can shoot controllable bullets—allowing soldiers to hit their mark in one shot every time; microchips with the worlds music database implanted directly to the part of your brain that hears sound this technology—allowing people to hear any song they want at any time without really "hearing" anything at all; and other fantastic technologies.

I also wondered if there was a way to take a single photograph and still be able to change the depth of field after the photo has already been taken. It was more of a science fiction idea at the time but now, it's a reality.

Stanford University Computer Science students have come up with a new technology that will surely change the way still photography is taken in the future.

Light field photography allows you to create REFOCUSABLE PHOTOGRAPHY. That's right. Take a picture of an in-focus plant in the foreground and buildings and people out-of-focus in the background. Then manipulate the image to focus on the people and then later focus on the buildings.

It's amazing and has to be seen to be believed.

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