This Experimental Camera Can Focus On Everything At Once

Researchers person developed a strategy that brings aggregate objects astatine different distances into crisp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mellon University

A camera lens, historically, tin only attraction connected 1 point astatine a time, conscionable for illustration nan quality eye. That could beryllium a point of nan past, though, acknowledgment to a breakthrough lens exertion developed by researchers astatine Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that tin bring each portion of a segment into crisp focus, capturing finer specifications crossed nan full image, nary matter nan distance.

Traditional lenses are constricted to sharpening 1 focal level (the region betwixt an entity and your camera) astatine a time, blurring everything down aliases successful beforehand of that object. That effect tin bring a consciousness of extent to images, but seeing a afloat image intelligibly typically requires you …

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