3D Photography is now a reality, take a look

Mar 4, 2008 by Abbas

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Multiple Aperture Most of us are fascinated with photography and since the digitalization of pictures and cameras happened more and more armature and budding photographers aspire to be professional some day. With all the advancements happening in the field of Photography we are beginning to see features we’ve never seen before.

From what I have seen and known I think Stanford is one of the universities which is majorly researching on imagery and photography. Keith Fife and his team at Stanford have developed a new technology which is called multi-aperture image sensor.

Instead of taking one big picture this technology breaks the entire picture into small 16×16 patches which are overlapping each other, this is called subarrays. The way it works is that the sensor is measures the distance of each patch from lens to object and arrange accordingly.

Attempts have been made in the past to achieve 3D imagery or stereoscopic imaging and the following image shows one of the cameras developed few years ago to take 3D Images. The technology is developed by a company called 3D World and is available in the market now. Click here to visit the product page.

3D World Camera
Another attempt was made by Adobe which is working on a similar technology. Click on the following link to view the video. AudioBlog.fr

Few months ago I watched a video on Scoble Show based on research of Marc Levoy, a professor at Stanford University. I was amazed at the things he demonstrated during the interview and it shows the kind of technology and features we can expect to see on our cameras in the future.

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
http://home.comcast.net/~jlballou/stereoaerial/sfmcc.html (examples of 3D Images)
http://isl.stanford.edu/groups/elgamal/people/kfife/

Excited about the future of Photography? Me too!