Something tells me that no one will remember Canon 1D X in 2020, but this camera will be still known.

love that they've ditched everything from legacy camera systems. the amount of comments on dpreview from people writing off this new tech is ridiculous. as a first gen consumer version of what is revolutionary tech this is pretty amazing. imagine 10 years from now being able to video with this and pull focus in post as well as being able to do single lens 3d.

IT is very exciting that this tech is hitting the streets! I have little doubt that there will eventually be high-quality pro cameras with this tech down the road, but the sensor tech will first have to work out kinks and build up good DR, color, global shutter, etc. (just like CMOS is having to do) before it becomes a truly great tool. But this is the first step towards all this, so very exciting and cool!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev Need CatchIt deal...plus hack. :-)

@B3Guy

Yep.
Even 1024x768 is perfect for most newspapers.
No delay, no need to focus.

But company behave really strange.
Absolutely no data on actual resolution.
No soft for Windows, no ability to share photos outside their site.

Someday all camera's will have this technology as well as the beam split HDR sensor technology from AMP, 200K+ sensors, and lenses with focal reducers. As much as I like all the cool technology coming out I can't help but wonder if most of the on set art will just disappear. I mean someday they'll be making movies by just putting up 5-10 stationary 200k cameras with unbelievable dynamic range to cover the scene. In post they'll pick the angle, crop, zoom, move, focus, and get the exposure. They'll probably even replace the crew with robots. I'm not sure if I like that future. Movies will suck.

But enough negativity. This thing is pretty cool and I will more than likely get one :)

"Something tells me that no one will remember Canon 1D X in 2020, but this camera will be still known."

LOL You're probably right!

Looks like Red is heading in this direction....

"One thing I will say is that we are working on multiple focus and depth map (think Lytros) but with wicked high resolution... The prototype is incredible. Don't tell Gizmodo or Engadget. :-)

Jim"

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?65086-I-want-to-tell-you...&p=845014#post845014

Hrhr :)
Might be the case that people wont remember lytros nor 1DX in 2020, but the new multifocus red.. cause it just came out ;)

Lytro inside (from FCC report)

I thought they got aliens technology!!!

There are plenty of papers on the internet which describe the concept and fwiw, the "original" was implemented using a modded Canon DLSR. The basic idea is you capture a light field which is in essence an array of images constructed using a coded pinhole/aperture array and from that you can reconstruct a final image using some algorithm. Stanford University have an uber camera array which basically accomplishes the same thing. Its pretty interesting stuff. It also allows you to "see through" objects ;) Search for computational photography and you'll get a load of results.