Thursday, 10 May 2012

Lytro


This oblong shaped camera is something quite new to take into the scene. The features contained in this small camera are


  • Refocusing: Which all together allows the users to refocus on certain things soon after they're taken.
  • Speed: This plenoptic camera captures images quickly, than you're regular point and shoot cameras.
  • Low-Resolution: In terms of megapixel it has 1080 x 1080 so about 1.2 megapixels
  • Low light sensitivity: Allows users to use larger apertures, meaning it enables to user to take shots in low light environments without the use of a flash
  • 3D images: Seeing as its a plenoptic camera records depth inormation (which allows it to focus at variable depths) stereo images can be constructed in software from a single plenoptic image shot.
At first glace I thought it was a a kaleidoscopic or some sort of toy which wouldn't last very long. Good and bad points about this, it's good in a sense it compact. The refocus system is quite handy, it's own embedded system contained within and its touch screen. But idealistically, I can see the  majority would see this as a waste of time, seeing as it can't do most things digital cameras can do. Which is sort of a let down, seeing as the majority are concerned with how many megapixels a camera has. To me this has potential to shift photography as we know it. But the design, would let it down greatly.

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