Why study comp. photography

1.Pervasiveness of photography
2.Computational photography as it relates to other disciplines
3.Computational photography vs. photography

Traditional Film/Digital Camera processes
Novel Camera
Sensor/Detector, lens
generalized optics(ray bender)

Almost everone has a camera
e.g. smaller, ubiquitous
Significant Improvements in option
Field of applied optics has studied
every aspect of the lens

Camera phones
widest selling electronic platform
Google earth, youtube, flickr
text, speech, music, images, video, 3D…
key element for art, research, products, special-computing …