Kenko is best known for its photography equipment accessories and converters (they also produce camera lenses under the Tokina brand name). Kenko was suppose to display a prototype of their new digital camera with interchangeable lenses at Photokina, but the prototype… got lost (?)… so they only had few pictures to show:
credit: DC Watch
Specs after the break:
Plenoptic technology is developed by Adobe and it lets you select which part of the image you want to be in focus. A Plenoptic camera contains an array of microlenses between the front lens and the sensor and it captures a series of small images from different viewpoints that can later be extracted and manipulated by special software in order to reach a certain depth of field during postprocessing.
Todor Georgiev is one of the scientist from Adobe that worked on that project and on his website I even found a picture of the the first plenoptic camera on the market produced by the German company Raytrix:
Photokina news are slowly fading away as we approach the end of day 3 of the biggest photography show. Quick update on the latest:
First, a slideshow from Photokina 2010:
“I asked why not with a lens mount? Answer: We want see how this one sells first. I asked: but you know that if this version does not sell it may be because it has no mount? Answer: no, is it so…? I asked if its cheaper than Leica X1. Answer was hesitant. Eventually they gave me “1000” as a ballpark number”
More X100 pictures available here and here plus another video:
