Lytro: Light Field Camera
Discussion
Quite clever if it's real and actually works, although I can't see any real benefits to it in the real world.
I am always sceptical about things like this as there is nothing but marketing rubbish on that website and a few fancy photos which could easily be recreated using photoshop and flash in a few minutes. A bit of real techical information and some images of at least a camera wouldn't go a miss.
I am always sceptical about things like this as there is nothing but marketing rubbish on that website and a few fancy photos which could easily be recreated using photoshop and flash in a few minutes. A bit of real techical information and some images of at least a camera wouldn't go a miss.
Very neat bit of technology but I can't see it being anything more than a gimmick. I saw a very techie explanation on another forum saying that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle will limit the maximum resolutions possible from this technology to a level well below what would be useful to 'serious' photographers, or I guess forcing the cameras and lenses to be so big as to be impractical.
Can't see the point of this camera. Far from being clever it's using brute force to solve a problem - eg it's taking a photograph of every possible focusing point. Imagine this technology scaled up for professional use - eg RAW images at 20MP for instance. The files would be absolutely huge.
The other problem is that it's not actually solving any problem that hasn't been solved before. It's merely providing another way to focus an image, yet focusing technology has been around and perfected since the early 80s (and maybe late 70s depending on when the OM-30 was built - and I'm sure that's not the first camera with focus confirmation), so to solve the focusing issue in 2011, it's a little late to the party.
Sorry, but in my opinion, this camera is a gimmick.
The other problem is that it's not actually solving any problem that hasn't been solved before. It's merely providing another way to focus an image, yet focusing technology has been around and perfected since the early 80s (and maybe late 70s depending on when the OM-30 was built - and I'm sure that's not the first camera with focus confirmation), so to solve the focusing issue in 2011, it's a little late to the party.
Sorry, but in my opinion, this camera is a gimmick.
....aaand another review from Wired - http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/02/lytro-camera/...
Quite easy to dismiss something like this.
Nagging feeling that, as happens from time to time, someone will have a
moment and suddenly the technology and something like it will suddenly have some related but unseen application which could be immense (you know, like use it to control computers for precision in keyhole surgery or for saving the planet in an oil spill when something needs capping on a seabed - or something much bigger, I don't know: I'm just a dunce without a crystal ball, but....).
Otherwise it looks like somebody trying to make a market for something fairly useless. Well tell Sony not to bother with the Walkman........that's what I'd have said
Nagging feeling that, as happens from time to time, someone will have a
moment and suddenly the technology and something like it will suddenly have some related but unseen application which could be immense (you know, like use it to control computers for precision in keyhole surgery or for saving the planet in an oil spill when something needs capping on a seabed - or something much bigger, I don't know: I'm just a dunce without a crystal ball, but....).Otherwise it looks like somebody trying to make a market for something fairly useless. Well tell Sony not to bother with the Walkman........that's what I'd have said
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