The start up company Lytro plans on introducing a "light field" camera this year where the focus point can be changed after the picture is taken. This type of photography captures the color, intensity and direction of individual light rays, allowing the user to refocus the picture even after it has been taken.
They also claim that they can take low light photos without a flash and 3D photos with only one lens. Pretty bold claims.
Amazing. When it comes out I wonder how many people will be commenting with disdain, "that's not real photography!" Of course don't count me with that group, I need all the tools I can get.
Sure it's real photography, we can choose to use it or not use it, right? When Minolta came out with AF in 1985, I wonder if people balked then. But it turns out that 25 years later we still have some issues with AF... focus missing, focus point set wrong, etc. How many landscape shots do we use AF for? I don't, I use LiveView. So this new idea sounds great and will have good applications, but I tell you what, the first thing I'd like to see is image quality when it comes out... and a Canon mount, or forget it, lol!
From the video, it looked like they were choosing multiple focus points. If this can achieve greater depth of field without focus stacking, and of course have excellent image quality, then I'll be really interested.
Posted by Scott Smorra on June 29, 2011 at 1:47 PM
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9 repliesThey also claim that they can take low light photos without a flash and 3D photos with only one lens. Pretty bold claims.
A link to the story: http://www.pcworld.com/article/230867/camera_startup_lytro_promises_to_revolutionize_photography.html
Also a link to their company blog: [url]http://blog.lytro.com/news/the-light-field-revolution-by-ren-ng/[url]
I saw that and if it's true, it will be amazing. And I just bought a new camera.
Yeah, Paul!