Lytro: The camera that could change photography forever

[fm1234]

Badass shit

Just think, if this became the standard, we'd never have to suffer blurry or flash-obfuscated jailbait bathroom mirror pictures EVER AGAIN.

There are probably other uses.


Frank

 

[mx=headroom]

So basically anyone can be a professional photographer now.

 

[Wright]

So basically anyone can be a professional photographer now.

Nah, most people still can't even point and click a camera so you'll still have half of the photos showing people with their heads cut off - they'll just be in focus now.

 

[g1c9]

holy shit

 

[Scheme]

[sarcasm] Can't wait to start a photo blog posting pictures of leaves, sunsets, my dog, and of course the sky. [/sarcasm]

 

[ContentGorilla]

Jokes aside, this camera is fucking sweet.

 

[taktikz]

coolness

 

[Fatbat]

That is pretty fucking amazing. I wonder what it does to the files sizes?

 

[street_team]

it can be great photographer in an instant?

 

[AuthorAji]

In b4 debate starts on the "essence of photography"

Similar to the DJ talks that go around where they compare Traditional turntables and New age CD Players.

 

[Isaiah Jackson]

Lmao no that is funny

Nah, most people still can't even point and click a camera so you'll still have half of the photos showing people with their heads cut off - they'll just be in focus now.

 

[ncmedia]

Really cool shit.

It's almost as if it's adding a radial guassian blur that steadily increases away from your selection yet preserves the light fields/shades you've selected..

You can kinda do this yourself with a photoshop action doing the above - probably wouldn't be as effective/precise without good practice but if you can capture a shot where everything is in focus, adding your own depth of field can be done that way too.

Though it's cool, and everyone is after that depth of field shot/video lately, I think it's just a matter of time before you can do this on a web based ap (or desktop) and get the same result with normal pics (that have everything in focus..) that you upload yourself vs. needing a special camera to do it. If the prices aren't crazy high I can see this catching on I guess, but still think it's a matter of time before it's an automated remote and cheap per use solution.

 

[cougarclaws]

looks like a game changer to me

 

[Enigmabomb]

Disruptive.

 

[WickedJoe]

This is bad ass. Think what this means for video now too. Almost any idiot can shoot a scene in a movie and they can edit it later to look good. And of course the surveillance applications will be nuts. Much easier to use face recognition software on all public cameras now... Uncle Sam will know your every move.

 

[allco]

Cool post.

Playing with the depth of field as an after thought within the camera. Nice option.

They need to release a video editing plugin for post production. That would be snazzy.

 

[cheshire]

Now people can hire a drunk hobo off the street to do their wedding photos.