A picture capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor comprising a multitude of pixels, said image sensor being configured to detect, in a photograph, a sample per pixel; an optical element for producing optical imaging to the image sensor, the optical element comprising a multi-channel optical element for individually imaging overlapping solid-angle ranges to separate subareas of the image sensor, and wherein each pixel of the image sensor has an imaging value associated therewith, the imaging values being imaging directions which are associated to a respective pixel by an association rule and from which the optical element images objects to the respective pixel, or wherein the imaging values are lateral imaging positions within a focal-depth area that is associated to the respective pixel by the association rule and images the optical element to the respective pixel; an interpolator for interpolating a distribution of the samples of the pixels in accordance with their imaging values at intersection points of a regular grid that extends across the entire distribution of the samples in order to obtain an array of picture values; an associator configured to determine, for a predetermined pixel of the image sensor, the imaging value associated with the predetermined pixel by the association rule by means of calculation using positional information with regard to the predetermined pixel on the image sensor or by means of lookup using a reference to the predetermined pixel; and an input interface and/or a distance estimator configured to distinguish, for the photograph, at least between a close-up shot and a long-distance shot, the associator being configured to perform, in the event of a close-up shot, the determination of the association rule while taking into account parallax effects such that the imaging values are lateral imaging positions in the focal-depth area, and, in the event of a long-distance shot, to perform the determination while neglecting parallax effects, so that the imaging values are the imaging directions. an image sensor comprising a multitude of pixels, said image sensor being configured to detect, in a photograph, a sample per pixel; an optical element for producing optical imaging to the image sensor, the optical element comprising a multi-channel optical element for individually imaging overlapping solid-angle ranges to separate subareas of the image sensor, and wherein each pixel of the image sensor has an imaging value associated therewith, the imaging values being imaging directions which are associated to a respective pixel by an association rule and from which the optical element images objects to the respective pixel, or wherein the imaging values are lateral imaging positions within a focal-depth area that is associated to the respective pixel by the association rule and images the optical element to the respective pixel; an interpolator for interpolating a distribution of the samples of the pixels in accordance with their imaging values at intersection points of a regular grid that extends across the entire distribution of the samples in order to obtain an array of picture values; an associator configured to determine, for a predetermined pixel of the image sensor, the imaging value associated with the predetermined pixel by the association rule by means of calculation using positional information with regard to the predetermined pixel on the image sensor or by means of lookup using a reference to the predetermined pixel; and an input interface and/or a distance estimator configured to distinguish, for the photograph, at least between a close-up shot and a long-distance shot, the associator being configured to perform, in the event of a close-up shot, the determination of the association rule while taking into account parallax effects such that the imaging values are lateral imaging positions in the focal-depth area, and, in the event of a long-distance shot, to perform the determination while neglecting parallax effects, so that the imaging values are the imaging directions.