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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
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.
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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.