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Old 19th January 2021, 21:44   #2401  |  Link
soresu
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post
The stuff was really complex on-set. It made early 3-strip Technicolor look simple. And while some components could be shrunk down, fundamentally you need a lot of lenses over a pretty wide area for the tech to work.
Metalens tech developments might solve the lens problem.

They not only increase the versatility of lenses (much lighter, thinner, and even achromatic focusing in a single lens element) but make them much easier to manufacture en masse.

Making a metalens is more like manufacturing a computer chip with photolithography processes, rather than the cutting and polishing of conventional curved lenses used today.

It makes sense to make a big change all at once for lightfield capture considering LF itself is a big change from conventional camera technology - might as well make a clean break.
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