Comments on: Mystical Lytro Light Field Camera Now Allows for Equally Magical Perspective Shift, Plus Living Filters

By: Toshiba ‘Out-Lytros’ Lytro, Designing a Camera Sensor Capable of Video Refocusing - NoFilmSchool

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:54:05 +0000

[...] impressed with its technology — you can set your focal distance after taking your shots. Now, you can also even shift your perspective a bit, another near-magical innovation for digital photography. That said, right now Lytro cameras have [...]

By: bob

bob — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:20:53 +0000

This would have been the same guy bashing the first digital cameras for how shitty they were…

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:41:56 +0000

“Please, crawl back into your cave and die quietly you dumbwitted idiot.”

Why do you have to be so obnoxious David? I would actually agree with your point if you hadn’t decided to show off how amazingly “well” you can insult people. Stephen made his points respectfully; you decided you didn’t agree and the only way to express that dissatisfaction was to take a verbaldump on his head? How does that work. Grow up!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:53:24 +0000

It’s gonna be all about the actors performance …. oh wait they are cgi as well

By: Lliam

Lliam — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:15:01 +0000

What David said.

By: Edward Martinez

Edward Martinez — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:42:08 +0000

Dang I guess were getting rid of 1st Ac in the next couple of years lol!! What next cinematographer? “dont worry we will light it in post” wow lol

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:50:29 +0000

*cough* Esper Photo Analysis *cough*

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:30:18 +0000

So I guess nothing is ever allowed to be just plain cool anymore. Have fun with your always-the-most-advanced-at-all-times camera equipment. We’ll have fun with our open minds :)

By: Stephen van Vuuren

Stephen van Vuuren — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:58:17 +0000

And your name calling clearly proves your intellectual superiority. Obviously, everything you say must be right.

By: Stephen van Vuuren

Stephen van Vuuren — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:57:35 +0000

You utterly missed my point. This camera is like a SIGGRAPH presentation – very cool tech, however did you read reviews or try to use the first one?

By: Stephen van Vuuren

Stephen van Vuuren — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:56:16 +0000

Clearly, no one here has read reviews of this camera or actually tried to use one. The technology behind it is very cool – the actual camera is too limited for anything but gimmick photos.

By: Mystical Lytro Light Field Camera Now. By Dave Kendricken (video) | Digital Cinema Tools | Scoop.it

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:37:41 +0000

[...] Posted by Dave Kendricken on November 15, 2012Image: stanford.edu"Lytro cameras already allow us to do something that, while (apparently) scientifically possible, seems to invoke more Gandalf than optical physics — which is to manipulate focus, dynamically and after the fact. By sampling the whole ‘light field’ within the field of view, they are truly fascinating iterations of the tools we use daily. This has some pretty interesting implications for the future of photography, not to mention videography — but Lytro isn’t stopping there. In fact, you can not only interactively shift your focal point, as you could before – but you can now, to an extent, alter the actual perspective of your shot as well, in real time — not to mention apply filters which also react in line with the company’s “living picture” aesthetic. For a demo video and some interactive examples, read on."…NoFilmSchool.comRead also: "Fourier Slice Photography", by Ren Ng at Stanford University [...]

By: JM Media

JM Media — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:06:10 +0000

Thats one is actually of their new “filter”. Yeah it doesn’t look like normal bokeh, it looks like swirls of water.

By: JM Media

JM Media — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:01:38 +0000

yes mine too!

By: Pascal Garnier

Pascal Garnier — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:48:32 +0000

I was amazed by most of the pics, until I tried the one with the sunflowers … setting focus on the flower in the foreground, creates the most artificial and horrible “bokeh” in the background I’ve ever seen.

It’s a nice toy/gadget, but they need to up resolution and colour reproduction a lot before this becomes a viable tool. Most smartphone cameras give nicer results than this.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:10:12 +0000

Please, crawl back into your cave and die quietly you dumbwitted idiot.

You’ve looked at the point and just decided to take a giant crap on it.

Why?

Of COURSE new technology wont be at it’s most efficient when it’s released. Just please, learn to grow and be humbled by these absolutely beautiful and innovative though processes.

By: JD Holloway

JD Holloway — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:04:31 +0000

The perspective shift concept is the same used by Canadian company isee3D to generate their single camera 3D imagery. They use a fast switching Left/Right polarizer in front of the front element of the lens to get the IO. Effectively, it makes one lens, act like its in two places.

By: gerald

gerald — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:00:19 +0000

the focusing stuff on the samples looks more like a unsharpenmask. I’m sure thats all fake.

By: Space Captain

Space Captain — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:39 +0000

Thank You

By: Emmar

Emmar — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:32:29 +0000

Primarily, I see it as another solid piece of the old “fix it in post” puzzle. If your focus is a little soft, the fix will be simple. Adjust the angle a touch? Easy. Could this make for some seriously sloppy craftsmanship? Sure. But I can imagine this being a feature on some future SLR, along with 1 press HDR in both still and video (as in processed in the camera). I’m sure there’s some other stuff that will be added to SLRs that is in the pipeline now.