ArsTechnica wrote:Imaging scientist Ren Ng's years of research into capturing "light fields" using increasingly high-resolution digital imaging sensors have finally come to fruition. Ng's company, Lytro, unveiled its first consumer product on Wednesday—a digital camera capable of capturing "living images" that can be infinitely refocused after capture. While the new camera is designed to change the way we capture and share snapshots, the technology has the potential to radically alter how all photographs are made.
The new Lytro camera is a small rectangular tube of aluminum, with an f/2 lens on one end and a small 2" touchscreen on the other. The only controls are a power button, shutter button, and a slider to control the 8x zoom range of its lens. There are no controls for aperture, shutter speed, or focus—because the Lytro doesn't need them. The Lytro is probably the closest thing to "point-and-shoot" photography that has ever existed in the digital era.
I heard about this camera several months ago but with no details it sounded like hype. After reading this article it sounds like Star Trek.
Wow, that is quite impressive. Surprisingly not that expensive either considering the "new" factor. Then again, they do say it is simpler, so maybe it should be cheaper, haha. I'll wait till they get the resolution up, but color me impressed!
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yeah....I played around with their gallery pics and although cool, the image quality isn't there yet.
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ars technica wrote:Imaging start-up Lytro, which hopes to revolutionize photography with its innovative light field capture technique, was giving demonstrations of its upcoming digital pocket camera at CES. We got a few short minutes to play with a working prototype, which we were told isn't 100 percent final. While the unusual shape and button arrangement do take a little getting used to, we had fun trying our hand at capturing images and changing the focus after the fact.
I'm not convinced that this isn't just as simple as a lense with variable focal length capturing muliple images of different focal points and viewing them with some sort of layering system. My suspicion is that the images only have 3 general focal areas to view and the real "magic" is in the post processing that occurs between the layers. I've only read one article and played with the sample imags on the site. It's cool, but I don't think this is a huge photographic breakthrough.
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