Raytrix

{{Short description|Camera company}}

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| name = Raytrix GmbH

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| industry = Photography, Technology

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| founders = Christian Perwass, Lennart Wietzke

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| hq_location_country = Germany

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| products = Plenoptic cameras

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| website = [https://www.raytrix.de/ raytrix.de]

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Raytrix GmbH is a German company founded by Christian Perwass and Lennart Wietzke that was the first to create and market commercial plenoptic cameras.{{cite web | url = http://www.petapixel.com/2010/09/23/the-first-plenoptic-camera-on-the-market/ | title = The First Plenoptic Camera on the Market | first = Michael |last = Zhang | date = 23 September 2010 | publisher = PetaPixel}} The R5 camera produces images of 1 megapixel resolution, while the R11 produces 3 megapixel images.{{cite web | url = http://www.raytrix.de/index.php/Cameras.html | title = Cameras | date = 2012 | publisher = Raytrix GmbH | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121222030317/http://www.raytrix.de/index.php/Cameras.html | archivedate = 2012-12-22 }} 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.{{cite video | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9568340.stm | date = 22 August 2011 |title = Out-of-focus pictures eliminated by photography innovation | publisher = BBC}}