A breath of fresh air for the Photo Industry to what UNIX/Linux are to the soft­ware industry.

The whole field of com­pu­ta­tional pho­tog­ra­phy is and will change the way we do pho­tog­ra­phy, the ques­tion is what do peo­ple work on next? For the last ten years or so there’s been a megapixel war as every­one knows, that has finally wind­ing down the asian cam­era man­u­fac­tur­ers to no longer com­pete based on the num­ber of megapixel so they began to com­pete on one another fea­ture. We’d like them to offer lots and lots of (new) features.

Features of this pro­to­type cam­era model:

• In-camera micro-lens array to enable post cap­ture focus adjustment
• Smart in-camera level adjustment
• High Dynamic Range Mode

I wrote some thoughts relat­ing to this issue a while ago here, that basi­cally reflects the rea­son why an open-source ini­tia­tive is always good for the industry.

Read the full report (with video) or see the project page below.

Camera 2.0: New com­put­ing plat­forms for com­pu­ta­tional pho­tog­ra­phy via Physorg.com