Abstract: A plenoptic, or light field, imaging enables the reconstruction of the light field, and therefore of a 3D scene, from a single camera through computational imaging. The plenoptic approach is an improvement to Fourier integral microscopy, or FIMic, to macroscopic imaging. The plenoptic imaging scheme offers better spatial resolution and simpler calibration and many generic computational reconstruction schemes. The plenoptic system does not require a complex customization of a camera, but instead relies on the design of a camera objective, which greatly reduces the complexity and cost of the scheme and simplifies its deployment to many cameras.