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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: scottws on Monday, August 27, 2012, 01:45:50 PM
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Anyone see these things? The idea is that you just capture whatever light is coming into the camera at a specific, statically-set aperture. The data is saved in a custom format, and then you can play with the focus of the image after-the-fact. It's actually really cool.
The Lytro website has a bunch of images you can play with. One of them that really impressed me is one that was obviously a reflection of sorts. It showed a reflection of an outdoor patio and adjacent home but you could see a rim of some sort. At first I thought it might have been a coffee mug, so I clicked on the "rim" but it turned out to be the bezel of a Weber grill thermometer and the various markings and needle came into focus and you could barely make out the reflection. Neat!
http://pictures.lytro.com/hickabee/pictures/213063/embed
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Oh yeah! Engadget had a hands-on with them last October (2011). (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/lytro-camera-hands-on-video/)
Impressive image fidelity but they lack in everything else. They don't suck or anything just don't toss out your old camera just yet.
It is incredible technology.
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I gotta admit, I love its design. It's so minimalistic!
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Yeah, I saw this a while back. Adobe was (is?) experimenting with a lens that allowed picking of focus afterwards in Photoshop as well. As a camera, I don't care about it: it's too limiting and actually too bulky for a P&S. However, I'd love to have this functionality for micro/macro photography because in the field it's often very hard to nail the focus.