[Imaging Resource] Firmware Friday: Lytro

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It's that time again -- Firmware Friday, where we round up the week's happenings on the firmware front. After last week's remarkable 21 updates (http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/06/14/firmware-friday-21-camera-updates-for-canon-nikon-olympus-samsung-sigma), normalcy prevails this week, and we have only one update on which to report. The Lytro is unusual plenoptic camera, or in its manufacturer's parlance, a "light field" camera. It's very low-resolution, but allows image refocusing after capture, as well as limited 3D viewing, thanks to a sensor design that determines not only what light is being received at each pixel location, but also the direction it's coming...
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