Lytro Camera

[Alpha]

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Lytro

Discuss. No kicking or biting.

 

[Alpha]

No one has anything to say about this camera?

 

[Big Mike]

I think someone mentioned it a few months back.

It certainly looks like interesting technology and being able to choose your focus point and DOF does seem like it would give you great creative control....but I have an uneasy feeling about anything that makes the photographer less important. Photographers probably felt the same way about auto exposure, back in the day.

 

[Josh66]

Wow, much cheaper than I was expecting...

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Happy to see that the software isn't windows only. Right now, there isn't even a windows version (OS X only). Hopefully that means that there hope for Linux support...

 

[dxqcanada]

Lytro Camera: How Pro Shooters Use Its Amazing Lens Technology | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

 

[o hey tyler]

Sure, it's amazing technology, but the quality of output is garbage. So, I'd rather have a DSLR with sharp focus and low noise imo imho tbqh.

 

[jake337]

I think someone mentioned it a few months back.

It certainly looks like interesting technology and being able to choose your focus point and DOF does seem like it would give you great creative control....but I have an uneasy feeling about anything that makes the photographer less important. Photographers probably felt the same way about auto exposure, back in the day.

You can control your focus point(kind of). But, I'm not sure you can control your DOF very much, you can control your DOF based on camera to subject distance at F2 and only F2. I'm not sure there is any aperture setting.

A few things I don't like based on reading and some of the sample pics you can play with.

File size is very small once you download and process. Like 1000x1000 or something close to that.
No raw.
Can only be used with a MAC(for now)
You can only upload photos to Lyrtro.com before you post them anywhere else(I've read but not 100%)

I'm not like the inability to control DOF. You cannot control your aperture so it's a constant F2.
When playing with some of the images on their site I've noticed that infinity isn't too sharp. Also if you choose to focus on an object just far enough away, you'll have very off foreground but focus from subject to infinity is sharp(relatively).

No shutter control, no ambient control. I might want to have some motion blur in my photo.

No in camera options besides exposure compensation I believe.

I'm wondering what dynamic range one of these sensors can capture.

When one of these sensors is in a body that can control Aperture, shutterspeed, and iso, then we will see how well it works.

How will this tech work when Off Camera Lighting is added? How will it change our control on lighting?




In hindsight, I would bet this trype of sensor would blow the first digital sensor made out of the water. I'm sure I will purchase one for my wife as it's P&S line develops. I would also like to see one in a smartphone.

 

[nickzou]

Sure, it's amazing technology, but the quality of output is garbage. So, I'd rather have a DSLR with sharp focus and low noise imo imho tbqh.

Well it is brand new technology. Just give it a decade or two to truly become a via photographer's tool.

 

[Buckster]

Sure, it's amazing technology, but the quality of output is garbage. So, I'd rather have a DSLR with sharp focus and low noise imo imho tbqh.

Well it is brand new technology. Just give it a decade or two to truly become a via photographer's tool.

Exactly. This thing's an infant that hasn't even taken it's first baby steps yet. I'll reserve judgement until it's matured.

 

[jake337]

Sure, it's amazing technology, but the quality of output is garbage. So, I'd rather have a DSLR with sharp focus and low noise imo imho tbqh.

Well it is brand new technology. Just give it a decade or two to truly become a via photographer's tool.

Exactly. This thing's an infant that hasn't even taken it's first baby steps yet. I'll reserve judgement until it's matured.

Right on! Who knows, this sensor may be implemented into a slr type design and could blow current sensor designs out the water in the future.