This year, Lytro will debut the first light field camera for everyone. OK – you’re not everyone. You are a beautiful, unique snowflake. And you deserve an amazing camera that lets you capture life’s singular moments, like baby’s first steps not second, with maximum magic and minimum hassle. No more fighting with dials and settings and modes. No more flat, boring, static photographs. With a Lytro, you unleash the light.
This is really cool. If it catches on, it could represent the next huge leap forward in photography.
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... and the photo snobs thought photoshop was destroying the purity of the art. There is going to be a collective popping of heads once this hits mainstream.
... and the photo snobs thought photoshop was destroying the purity of the art. There is going to be a collective popping of heads once this hits mainstream.
Well, there will still be motion blur to mess with noobs. Plus, the non-photography people will just keep shooting with their phones.
Great news! The Lytro camera is officially on the market (available for pre-order at lytro.com for $400 USD @ 8 GB; $500 @ 16 GB), and the early feedback is mostly very encouraging.
No manual exposure makes me sad. What good is perfect depth of field if the exposure is wrong?
This is the advent of a brand new technology; but yes, that's one of the major drawbacks of the first-gen Lytro.
Wikipedia claims the company has raised $50 million in key investments to this point. Interestingly, CEO Ren Ng has stated that he plans to develop and manufacture these cameras in-house for the foreseeable future, rather than license technologies to established manufacturers. He wants to oversee the growth of his invention all the way through.
I wonder how that will affect the feature list (beyond being a light field camera) of the Lytro going forward, not to mention market penetration, and ultimately, sale figures.
I'd love to fool around with one of these cameras for a few hours.
I want to see some real world full rez pics, I think I know how the camera works, but if it works that way I can't see how they get anything close to a decent resolution.
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I want to see some real world full rez pics, I think I know how the camera works, but if it works that way I can't see how they get anything close to a decent resolution.
Most people don't look at their photos at anywhere near their actual resolution anyways.
"the viewfinder LCD is tiny and of fairly poor quality, and we found it difficult to frame images with the limited field of view and completely square aspect ratio. Also, the images themselves come out at fairly low resolution, and you do have to hold the camera moderately steady to avoid adding blur."
It's more like a toy than camera. The living picture thinggy got old pretty quickly, like after 4 times on their website for me. I seriously doubt people will pay $400 for this party trick kind of device at this stage.
"the viewfinder LCD is tiny and of fairly poor quality, and we found it difficult to frame images with the limited field of view and completely square aspect ratio. Also, the images themselves come out at fairly low resolution, and you do have to hold the camera moderately steady to avoid adding blur."
Well, they do go on to say this...
"All that said, the basic concept works, it works well, it’s fun, and it’s like nothing else on the market. We seriously can’t wait to get our hands on a final unit, and we’re already dreaming what this could be like in a high-resolution DSLR-sized package."
Doesn't sound so bad to me.
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Lytro: Light Field Camera
