Engadget has a development story: Lytro has shown their light field camera for the first time. More to come… More pictures of the Lytro camera: -1- | -2- | -3- Prices: $399 for 8GB, $499 for 16 GB camera. See the live blog on AllThingsD and more details from Gizmodo. f/2 constant aperture lens, 8x optical zoom, no flash, touchscreen
The first Lytro light field camera is already in production according to this article from AllThingsD: “Meanwhile, many on Lytro’s team have been shuttling between Silicon Valley and the Asian manufacturing facility where the first cameras are being produced. While the design itself has been fully baked for some weeks now, the company has been working […]
Lytro released a video of a fashion model photographed with their light field camera. The camera appearance is blurred throughout the video except at the 1:26 mark where you can see a pixelated glimpse of the camera and its size: Based on this picture, the camera appears not to be bigger than a regular DSLR. The […]
Lytro just just published a brief Q&A session and it seems that we should expect to see the first light field camera by the end of the year:
Since my last coverage of Lytro, the startup company raised 50 million venture capital and is making headlines with its technology that lets you select the focus point after the image is captured. Here are some examples (click on an object to get it in focus):
I just came across this startup company called Lytro that is trying to remove “the physical constraints of camera and lens systems” by using computational photography processes: “A Lytro camera can do things that have been considered impossible since the invention of photography. The ability to focus a picture after you take the shot is […]
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