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"As the\u00A0Lytro Illum light field camera hits the streets\u00A0today, it\u2019s no surprise that similar photographic technologies in the shoot-first-focus-later genre\u00A0are also breaking out of\u00A0the lab and\u00A0into the public eye.\r\nPelican Imaging\u00A0has unveiled its own version of a variable focus camera, but unlike Lytro\u2019s offering, it\u2019s geared toward smartphones and other mobile devices. Pelican\u00A0has posted some sample images\u00A0to demonstrate the capabilities of its mobile light field camera, which has been under development for several years, and takes a much different approach than the Lytro.\r\nBuilt as an array of multiple cameras, each with its own sensor and lens, the Pelican captures images in native 3D, showing\u00A0the scene's depth information. The camera actually assigns a depth point to each pixel.\u00A0Users can focus on any subject in the frame, change focus on multiple subjects after taking the shot, capture linear measurements, scale and segment images, change backgrounds and apply filters.\r\nNote that your browser must support WebGL in order to view and adjust the images, and the effect does\u00A0not work on iOS.\r\nThe accompanying software allows you to choose what to focus on, and lets you focus on multiple subjects at once. A segmentation tool allows you to add a person or an object to the picture with native scaling and placement based on the depth information contained in the frame.\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMPfRR4gHTs&amp;amp;amp;feature=youtu.be\r\nBecause the camera has no moving parts, you can immediately start shooting and keep shooting. Still image resolution is analogous to about 8 megapixels. And, at under 3mm in thickness, the Pelican array camera is also the first plenoptic camera \u00A0to also capture 1080p video at 30fps.\r\n\u27A4 Pelican Imaging"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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