Your digital SLR can take absolutely incredible images but have you ever wanted it to be able to do more? Like limit the polarity of light coming in, without needing a filter? Or isolate down to specific light spectrums? Or how about having Lytro-like refocusing abilities? It turns out that not only is this possible, but a research group has a functional prototype that radically changes how a camera works.
The KaleidoCam has been developed by a team at Saarland University, and will be presented at this year's SIGGRAPH show….
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via Imaging Resource News Page http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/07/19/kaleidocamera-len-insert-would-give-any-dslr-lytro-like-powers-video