Light field camera

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A light field camera is a camera that can capture a light field. It can capture a 4 dimensional light field at the surface of an image sensor.

An example is the Lytro cameras, such as the Lytro (1st generation).

A proper light field camera should be an all-in-one gadget that can display the photos on the gadget itself. It should have a light field sensor and a light field viewfinder that doubles as a display for viewing photos from memory.

OTOY demonstrated a light field camera system using two DSLRs that acted as a spherical rolling shutter. OTOY's system used post processing and was suited to virtual reality. This was done in the year +2015.[1]

A lightfield camera can be made by putting a microlens array in front of a standard camera.[2]

A light field camera could theoretically capture video.

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