Raytrix GmbH is a German company founded by Christian Perwass and Lennart Wietzke that was the first to create and market commercial
plenoptic camera
A light field camera, also known as a plenoptic camera, is a camera that captures information about the '' light field'' emanating from a scene; that is, the intensity of light in a scene, and also the precise direction that the light rays are ...
s. The R5 camera produces images of 1
megapixel
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device.
In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...
resolution, while the R11 produces 3 megapixel images. Unlike
Lytro, which initially targeted the consumer market, the main market of Raytrix's cameras is industrial and scientific applications where depth information of each pixel can be more useful.
See also
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Lytro
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4D light field
The light field is a vector function that describes the amount of light flowing in every direction through every point in space. The space of all possible '' light rays'' is given by the five-dimensional plenoptic function, and the magnitude of ea ...
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External links
Raytrix
Photography companies of Germany