The Camera That Lets You Shoot Now, Focus Later

[mips]

http://www.lytro.com/cameras

The camera that turns light into living pictures

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.

Pretty impressive.

I suggest you visit the site to get a better understanding of how it works.

[rax_m]

Wow.. Sounds like a real revolution in photography. Would love to play with one :guitar:

[SoFl W]

Maybe because I am old school, but I still have to believe GIGO (garbage In, Garbage Out) I can't believe if you have an out of focus image you wont have a loss in quality trying to fix it. (Another saying, "You can't polish a turd")

[KiwiNZ]

Maybe because I am old school, but I still have to believe GIGO (garbage In, Garbage Out) I can't believe if you have an out of focus image you wont have a loss in quality trying to fix it. (Another saying, "You can't polish a turd")

If the Camera is gathering enough raw data there is no issue with post take editing. Much in the same way if you are shooting using 'Raw' .

[forrestcupp]

This is pretty awesome. The picture gallery was really cool.


Maybe because I am old school, but I still have to believe GIGO (garbage In, Garbage Out) I can't believe if you have an out of focus image you wont have a loss in quality trying to fix it. (Another saying, "You can't polish a turd")It doesn't work like that. It's not taking an out of focus picture and trying to fix it. It actually records all of the light fields in the entire scene and stores the record of all of it so that you can choose what you want to focus on later. Traditional cameras record the scene into one light field that can't be changed. This is pretty amazing.

I'll bet the files are humungous.

[el_koraco]

Does it have Linux support???

[sydbat]

Does it have Linux support???http://www.tony-mackenzie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/picard-facepalm.jpg

On topic - I want one!

[koenn]

Amazing.

You can read the guy's dissertation on how it works (on the site, via the science inside", link on page 4).

otoh, knowing how to deal with focus and depth of field were the thing that separated the boys from the men in photography
And now, anybody can do it, given the right camera ...

[handy]

Maybe because I am old school, but I still have to believe GIGO (garbage In, Garbage Out) I can't believe if you have an out of focus image you wont have a loss in quality trying to fix it. (Another saying, "You can't polish a turd")

GIGO is still applicable. Great photographic technology doesn't a great photographer make. The photographer is still responsible for the composition of the photograph.

[SoFl W]

I guess I am still thinking "film"

[Quadunit404]

Does it have Linux support???

Cannot tell if serious question or just trolling.

On topic: I wonder how this'll work in a real world situation. It sounds neat but does it blend work as intended?

[SoFl W]

Cannot tell if serious question or just trolling.


I was wondering the same thing, thought maybe they were asking if the image format will be supported by linux.

[NovaAesa]

Another saying, "You can't polish a turd"
So I'm guessing you didn't see that Mythbusters episode then :P

[mips]

On topic: I wonder how this'll work in a real world situation. It sounds neat but does it blend work as intended?

Only time will tell.

For those that are keen to get their hands on one there is a Reserve a Camera field for your email address should you want to be one of the first to get one.

As koenn mentioned the dissertation is pretty interesting http://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf

IF you click on the About US link you will notice they have some pretty talented people on their staff.

[forrestcupp]

So I'm guessing you didn't see that Mythbusters episode then :P

Lol. Did they really do that?

[mips]

Did they really do that?

Yip, http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

[haqking]

Yip, http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

ha ha, awesome..love that show ;-)

[forrestcupp]

Yip, http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

:lol: That's amazing.

[haqking]

:lol: That's amazing.

it was a pile of S*** ;-)