WOW, What do you think? LYTRO ILLUM ???

vipgraphx · Apr 22, 2014

Wow, this looks very promising

LYTRO ILLUM

https://www.lytro.com

https://www.lytro.com/#lytro-illum-introduction-videos

what do you folks think??

KmH · Apr 22, 2014

The Lytro system has been around for a while now.

The odd looking camera they first produced didn't sell every well.

Maybe this more normal looking camera will work better for them.

vipgraphx · Apr 22, 2014

Yeah this camera looks more like a camera and not a kids toy.

looks like it will be fun to use.

Braineack · Apr 22, 2014

if their camera is designed anything like their awful website...

if their camera is designed anything like their wonderfully undescriptive descriptive text...

from what I can gather, it's a camera that can take a picture, but you can selectively change the DOF after the fact? Or was too simple and easy to understand and not enough marketing fluff BS?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it now. interesting.

unpopular · Apr 22, 2014

what do I think? Yet another disappointment from Lytro.

KmH · Apr 22, 2014

Their process is a solution that doesn't have a problem. LOL!

JerryLove · Apr 22, 2014

Braineack said:
from what I can gather, it's a camera that can take a picture, but you can selectively change the DOF after the fact? Or was too simple and easy to understand and not enough marketing fluff BS?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it now. interesting.

Light-field camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In short: the four main advantages I can think of are.
1) You can change focal point after-the-fact (so no chance of missing focus, no need to put auto-focus on the lens, no waiting for AF to get the target, etc).
2) You can change DoF after-the-fact.
3) You can use simpler lenses (since the sensor gets the light ray data rather than point data you can do far more lens correction in post processing)
4) You can get 3D off a single lens. Well, you can get a distance map to everything. Actually producing a new 3D image might be a problem due to occlusion.

hotdrop · Apr 22, 2014

In short: the four main advantages I can think of are.
1) You can change focal point after-the-fact (so no chance of missing focus, no need to put auto-focus on the lens, no waiting for AF to get the target, etc).
2) You can change DoF after-the-fact.
3) You can use simpler lenses (since the sensor gets the light ray data rather than point data you can do far more lens correction in post processing)
4) You can get 3D off a single lens. Well, you can get a distance map to everything. Actually producing a new 3D image might be a problem due to occlusion.

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1-3 are interesting but not all that useful
#4 if you could actually do it (probably through 3rd party app/post processing would be incredible). There are machines that do it now but they run somewhere between 100k-1Mil a pop. If somebody could figure out how to do it for 2K I would buy it in a heart beat.

Scatterbrained · Apr 22, 2014

I remember when the first one came out and the designer/founder outright refused to talk about resolution. At least now they're putting a number on it; 4 Mp. Personally I think it's interesting technology, but as it is right now it locks you in to one focal length and very low resolution. I'm curious to see where it goes in the future though.

minicoop1985 · Apr 23, 2014

I'm unsure how resolution will play into this. I know that consumer confidence (most consumers are idiots) will be put off by 4 megapixels compared to say, today's 16 megapixel point and shoots and 36mp DSLRs (Nikon, right?). But as we know, pixel count isn't everything, and with this different technology, it may play out differently. It might not, in which case you're paying $1,500 for a 4mp cool toy that wouldn't pay you back.

sonicbuffalo · Apr 23, 2014

https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/c705a83ed4d94e17c2321bb081c35eb92cb7ca03

Here's a good picture of the camera....and they don't tell you how many MP it has....not measured that way.

Braineack · Apr 23, 2014

I just hope it produces better images from the last design in the thier own gallery:

https://pictures.lytro.com/

my cell phone takes better pictures, that are actually in focus.