Adobe Magic Lens
You can’t buy it yet, but following hot on the heels of Stanford University’s 3D Digital Sensor, image processing software giant Adobe offers us all a glimpse of what the future holds for photography. Adobe is better known for its industry-standard graphics products such as Photoshop as well digital image processing and workflow managaement system, Lightroom.
With its first ever hardware-based product, Adobe has revealed a lens comprising 19 smaller ones which allow an image to be recorded from slightly different angles.
Processed, the different angles allow the position of the background to be changed slightly, but more interestingly, depth of field can be adjusted post-image capture. The video below illustrates what the lens can offer although you’ve pretty much seen the same yourself when looking through a camera viewfinder and modifying aperture and angle.
The only difference is that this time all those adjustments can be made after the shot is taken. Its unlikely that such lenses are going to be standard for D-SLRs, but it is possible that such a product could be offered for specialist photographic purposes or as stand-alone cameras in their own right.
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