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06-22-2011, 10:31 AM
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Choose focus later: Start-Up Lytro Promises to Revolutionize Photography
A super cool concept I hope it still have good image quality. 
A Silicon Valley start-up called Lytro claims it's working on a consumer camera that uses light field technology to radically change the way we take, edit and experience photographs. Whereas a normal digital camera captures a snapshot of light hitting a sensor, a light field camera first separates rays of light in order to individually record their color, intensity and direction. This extra information opens up a world of possibilities, including the ability to focus on any depth of field within a taken photo, observe a 3D-type effect even without specs, and boost images taken in extremely low light. Although light field cameras have been around for some time, they haven't been commercially viable. Now though, Lytro has secured backing worth $50million to bring a "competitively priced" camera to market "later this year" -- we'll see if they can beat similar plenoptic technology from Adobe to market. Can't wait that long? Check out the interactive photo (click on Elvis to re-focus) after the break, plus a video that also shows off the 3D effect. Both are the definition of mind-blowing.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/l...-lets-you-cho/
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06-22-2011, 04:15 PM
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Senna's gonna hate this. Lol. Actually , me too.
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06-22-2011, 09:01 PM
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Will be interesting to see how this will be implemented at the consumer level...but I can see what you guys mean. It's like you don't need to know anything about photography to make a great photo anymore.
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10-22-2011, 08:23 PM
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https://www.lytro.com/camera
well, it's for sale now.
$499 - 16gb
$399 - 8gb
edit: ships with free software for the Mac. Windows software coming soon. Seems pretty neat. Not sure how I like the actual physical format of the camera but the technology seems pretty neat.
Last edited by seakrait; 10-22-2011 at 08:32 PM.
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10-23-2011, 05:15 AM
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OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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saw that on Twitter a couple weeks ago. i read though that the resolution is not that great .
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Last edited by N.V.M.; 10-23-2011 at 06:20 AM.
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10-23-2011, 08:36 AM
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OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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I think the technology has a lot of potentials, but I don't think it's ready for commercial scale yet. I mean, it needs a 16mp sensor to capture a 500x500 (0.25mp) image?
I think if they can achieve something like 16mp sensor producing 8mp image, it should be pretty good.
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