The Lytro Camera

[Carterofmars]

Interesting...

https://www.lytro.com/camera?jadid=17400372123&jap=none&jk=&jkId=gc:a8a8ae4cd3b5427a6013b560580845b21:t8__:k_😛l_www.whitehousedossier.com&jp=www.whitehousedossier.com&js=1&jsid=31806&jt=1&gclid=CL_xn_nxiLYCFYSK4Aod_2wAXg

 

[Vince Lupo]

Had one, got tired of it, sold it, made money on it.

 

[thegman]

I only shoot film, but I still find this interesting. Lytro is a different, original approach to something that is photography, but not quite. It's authentically digital as it were, not a copy of film. I like the idea, I admire them for doing it, and I can't help but think this can have some cool applications on websites etc.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Unless they've changed things (which is possible), I think you can only post/run the effects via their site.

I would have held onto mine if the actual image quality was a heck of a lot better. As well, I personally got tired of the 'gimmick', if I can use that term.

 

[Murchu]

The original Lytro concept, reminded me of Bladerunner, and how one day we may be able to not only adjust the focus of an image but perhaps also the viewpoint of the image. One day I'm sure all this and more will be possible..

 

[Carterofmars]

The original Lytro concept, reminded me of Bladerunner, and how one day we may be able to not only adjust the focus of an image but perhaps also the viewpoint of the image. One day I'm sure all this and more will be possible..

Yes, that is exactly the same thought I had. It reminded me of the piano scene/dream sequence. If I recollect, that is when Decker had the unicorn vision. (People here who never saw the movie, and reading this will prob wonder what the heck were talking about).

 

[hteasley]

I played with a friend's Lytro: the depth of field trick just didn't seem worth it. I didn't find that it had a dramatic range of refocusable depth, and the in-focus bits weren't that sharp.

Promising technology, I'll check back in a few years.

 

[John Lawrence]

There's a Digitalrev review(?) of it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ9W5TGbanI

John

 

[furcafe]

Reminded me of the scene where he zooms around the photograph & spots the snake.

Yes, that is exactly the same thought I had. It reminded me of the piano scene/dream sequence. If I recollect, that is when Decker had the unicorn vision. (People here who never saw the movie, and reading this will prob wonder what the heck were talking about).

 

[Murchu]

Reminded me of the scene where he zooms around the photograph & spots the snake.

Yeah, me too. Makes you wonder what will be possible photographically in the future..

 

[Murchu]

I played with a friend's Lytro: the depth of field trick just didn't seem worth it. I didn't find that it had a dramatic range of refocusable depth, and the in-focus bits weren't that sharp.

Promising technology, I'll check back in a few years.

Haven't read too much into it, but wonder what the difference between the Lytro, and say using very a small sensor where the depth of field pretty much covers everything, and then using something like photoshop to selectively blur what you don't want to be in focus.

To me, the Lytro camera always seemed like a proof of concept camera.

 

[Carterofmars]

Makes you wonder what will be possible photographically in the future..

Yeap. I think this is really remakable.

 

[furcafe]

Light-field photography is really the reverse. It's not a matter of everything being covered by mere depth of field, but rather all the visual information of the entire scene being captured 1st & actual focusing taking place afterwards. Lytro is indeed a proof of concept & I think the same technology is already coming to smartphones.

Haven't read too much into it, but wonder what the difference between the Lytro, and say using very a small sensor where the depth of field pretty much covers everything, and then using something like photoshop to selectively blur what you don't want to be in focus.

To me, the Lytro camera always seemed like a proof of concept camera.

 

[Griffin]

Deckard was a replicant. Did you know that?

 

[JoeV]

It seems to me that the Lytro selective focus effect would work better with a larger sensor.

Equally interesting to me is the recent Nokia camera phone that's 36 megapixel, which for normal angles of view interpolates the extra pixels down to about 7mp effective, but then is able to do digital zoom when needed, negating the need for an optical zoom lens while maintaining the 7mp resolution at all focal lengths.