Focus AFTER your shot not before?

[Michael L]

I stumbled across this on another fourm. The videos on this page are really cool. They are selecting the focus point AFTER the shot has been taken. I wonder how long before we consumers see stuff like this available?

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/

[ron chappel]

It sure is an interesting concept.
Some have been saying that it's an irrelevance because of the very low resolution- but it's likely that the microlens array could be improved dramatically

[Barb42]

Ron, isn't that what they said a while back about digital? Its irrelevant because of its low resolution? This could be a hint of what is coming down the pike. Very interesting.

[ron chappel]

Ah! it just clicked in my rather slow mind why he is using a huge back on a full frame camera-
it could be so that they have potential shallow DOF to work with. I presume this idea would be of little use on a small format camera where allost everything is allready in focus anyway?