Could change photography for ever.

[whatever]

It was just a matter of time using digital photography that this concept could happen. Just imagine a camera that shoots everything in focus and with out additional light. If this camera is real it will change everything we know about taking pictures. I can imagine one lens for all focal lengths. This is truly revolutionary. http://www.lytro.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QV152jc3Ac

 

[antiquark]

One of the internet gurus said, "just use a point and shoot. The small sensor brings everything into focus."

The Lytro seems like a solution without a problem.

 

[whatever]

Light is everything.

Light is everything.

One of the internet gurus said, "just use a point and shoot. The small sensor brings everything into focus."

The Lytro seems like a solution without a problem.

Small sensor is fine if you have tons of light and a fast lens. This thing works in candle light. Pulling maximum light into a lens is the greatest challenge for any camera.
It's like recording sound with many microphones placed around a room. In the edit software you can increase and decrease the volume from each. The way I see this technology it will be as important as the creation of the digital camera.

 

[Luna]

Opps, wasn't this posted already?

But in keeping with the topic of changes in photography....
You could buy a RedOne Epic HD video camera and just walk around with it recording. Go home and then pull out 14mp frames and voila, you got your shot.
Just think. You could find a homeless person, start the recorder, wait for him to sneeze a snot rocket out, the snot trail forming a perfect triangle wit his body and the ground, and then go home and pull the perfect frame.
You can pull the decisive moment from the thousands of frames you captured.

 

[sleepyhead]

There is a a grainy, soft, dark, picture by Robert Frank, taken on the street at night, of the hand of a person holding a plastic bag with a baby doll in it.

(Anyone know that shot? I think it's in the book "Black and White things"?)

Anyway, that image, as low tech as it is, seared itself into my brain from the first time I saw it.

So whatever this new technology can do, what matters to Photography are how visually interesting the images that people use to get out of it, not the technology itself.

Just my opinion.

 

[whatever]

I was about 50 years old when the first gas engine car was made and rolled through town. As I stood there and watched in amazement everyone around and in the news said why do we need anything that useless. We have horses and wagons and they work just fine without the need for roads and gas. The majority of smart people predicted the new fangled gas thing would never amount to anything. Sound familiar?

 

[sleepyhead]

I was about 50 years old when the first gas engine car was made and rolled through town. As I stood there and watched in amazement everyone around and in the news said why do we need anything that useless. We have horses and wagons and they work just fine without the need for roads and gas. The majority of smart people predicted the new fangled gas thing would never amount to anything. Sound familiar?

Hi, I'm no Luddite. My only point is that advances in technology certainly give artists improved tools, but at the end of the day what matters to me are how visually interesting the resulting images are.

What concerns me about this technology is that, I believe, one role of the photographer is to SELECT out of the myriad of possible pictures, a frame that captures both the subject and something about the intent/psychology/cultural background/artistic motivation of the photographer him/herself.

The act of focusing the camera is both a technical one, as well as a psychological one - the act of selection, at the moment the photo was captured. Somehow, for me, doing this focus/selection process after the fact on a computer runs against the act of emotionally responding in the moment.

So I can't get too excited about it.

 

[whatever]

Sleepyhead, I understand your ideas about capturing a shot that fits your emotion at the moment taken. What I don't understand is why you can't shoot the same way with this camera. The way I see this full light camera is, it does not change what I am seeing but in fact gives me a lot more to choose from after the fact. Haven't you ever taken a photo and later looking at it say, I wish I had done something different with that shot.