Michael Long

It should.. and will... eventually. The relatively minor nit is capturing 10x a normal HD frame's data, processing it, and moving it... for each and every frame.

@HowaboutRAW: Moving object? Sure. No problem. You want to capture 10X the data PER FRAME in order to do so?

We barely have the tech to capture 4K. You want to try 40K???

@Cy Cheze: You might go on Flckr and note just how many photos come from traditional camera makers vs computer and electronics companies...

@falconeyes : It's ALL interpolated, but it might well be higher than you think. Part of the process corrects for lens distortions, chroma, and other aberrations, all at the same time.

@HowaboutRAW : It's a special micro lens array placed higher than one normally would be, over a standard bayer sensor.

One thing to note is that he mentions if you could change the distance...

@ powerbook duo : Huh. I wonder what the net effect would be if you covered, say, 1/4 or 1/3 of a camera's image sensors with a 1-2 stop ND filter? Could you extrapolate and get single-shot HDR?

In his thesis, the inventor estimates that you could get 4MP (2k x 2k) out of, say, a full-frame 100+ MP sensor...

Samsung just announced a new sensor prototype that records z (depth) information along with the traditional RGB mosaic. Once developed further, that would give you the ability to emulate...

In his paper he demos a way to effectively have everything sharp. I'm not sure if the math lets you go the other way and get a DOF less than that actually captured.

Read the guy’s thesis last night. In it, there was one estimate that using a 35mm full-frame 112MP sensor you could extract a 2k x 2k image. More and you started running into diffraction...

The Backside Illuminated sensor could go a long way towards correcting that. Using BSI tech on the 8MP iPhone 4s meant that it had much better image quality than the 5MP iPhone 4.

Of course, they...

"Oh and by the way, if you are concerned about weight, do something about the ridiculous weight of your Pro DSLRs and lenses."

Pro gear is pro gear. You don't put the amount of glass needed for a...

Cool... but again, useless for 99% of the smartphone/snapshot/P&S crowd, who want little more than to send their latest party pix to Facebook or Flickr...

MY holy grail is exceptional low light...

Perhaps, but for the foreseeable future it's still a, what? three-trick pony.

1) Change focus point on the 1 or 2% of images where AF and Face Detection and all of the other cool toys on the P&S...

No thanks. Their "miracle technology" drops resolution down by about a factor of ten. A demo showed an 11MP sensor generating a huge 1.2MP image.

I'm more interested in them adding Sony's latest...

No thanks. Their "miracle technology" drops resolution down by about a factor of ten. A demo showed an 11MP sensor generating a "huge" 1.2MP final image.

I'm more interested in Apple adding...