Showing posts with label Lytro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lytro. Show all posts

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.