Time to blow your photographic mind: refocus a photo after the fact.
Hardcore technology out of Stanford becomes start-up Lytro, via Techcrunch:
Rather than just capturing one plane of light, it captures the entire light field around a picture, all in one shot taken on a single device. A light field includes every beam of light in every direction at every point in time. Experimentation in this field started in the mid-1990s at Stanford with 100 cameras in one room. Lytro’s innovation is making it small enough to fit in your pocket.
Check out the science inside this camera that makes “living pictures.” This seems to us to be the technology which will eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field after the fact, doing away with the need for physically large lenses full of sculpted pieces of glass. We can imagine how images captured using small lenses on smartphone devices will be manipulated automatically or manually into the focal lengths of various lenses. Not to mention making obsolete funky iPhone accessories (no matter how much we love them) such as the Olloclip and Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount. This innovation will either be a blessing, a curse or somewhere in between for focus-pullers everywhere.
In any event, bring on the music video concepts leveraging exclusively this focus gag, the fantastic “focus-pulling” in narrative films, and undoubtedly a Scientific and Technical Academy Award.
Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV)
Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology provides shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount.
Will this eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field without the need for large lenses full of pieces of glass? Tiny, smartphone lens images manipulated into focal lengths of various lenses. Obsoleting iPhone accessories like Olloclip and the SLR Mount.
Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý made a video performance on the streets of Prague mounting a pico projector to the bike handlebars to display a DIY digital bike lane.
ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.
Flavorwire has desaturated and uploaded 10 films that they claim provide a better viewing experience in black and white.
The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.
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