Plenoptic camera maker Lytro has unveiled its first product – the Lytro Light Field Camera. Available in early 2012, the camera will come in 8Gb and 16Gb versions, costing $ 399 and $ 499, and capable of storing 350 and 750 images respectively in their internal memory. The cameras feature a 35-280mm equivalent, constant F2 lens with what the company is calling an 11 megaray sensor, that captures photos that can be refocused after shooting. Company Founder and CEO Ren Ng showed us the camera and talked us through the shooting experience.
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Lytro announces Light Field Camera
20
Oct
Lytro camera overview and discussion with CEO Ren Ng
20
Oct
Lytro Founder and CEO Ren Ng showed us the Light Field Camera and talked us through some of what it can do. Having played with the camera, we’ve written an overview in which he discusses the shooting and sharing experience, gives some more details about using Light Field images and tells us about ‘Camera 3.0.’
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Lytro plenoptic camera used for fashion shoot
08
Aug
Following the extensive press coverage of Lytro’s ‘light field’ camera, the company’s Director of Photography, Eric Cheng, was invited to photograph a fashion shoot. The results, visible on Canadian model Coco Rocha’s website, show a similar level of control over the focus point as exhibited in the sample we posted previously (and, perhaps tellingly, are the same 494 x 494 pixel resolution). They are accompanied by a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot that shows Cheng using the (blurred-out) camera. Despite the blurring, it suggests the camera is around the size of a conventional compact.
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Photos you can refocus: Lytro promises camera within a year
07
Jul
Startup company Lytro is claiming to be close to launching a camera that allows any point of focus to be specified after the shot is taken. The concept behind the device, called a light-field, or plenoptic camera camera has surfaced regularly over the past few years, but now Lytro, founded by Stanford PhD Ren Ng, says it will have a product ready within a year. The concept uses a series of microlenses to split the incoming light rays across multiple sensor pixels, depending on the angle from which it arrived. This additional information about the angle of the arriving light makes it possible to recalculate different focus points after the image has been shot, but at the cost of lower image resolution. The company hasn’t, as yet, provided details such as its system’s output resolution. (From the New York Times)
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