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Lytro Camera Finally Unveiled

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  • Started 1 year ago by NikoDoby
  • Latest reply from IndyGeoff
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  1. NikoDoby

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    The Nikon D800 better have a touch sceen LCD or I'm switching to Lytro!!!

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  2. Michael DeRose

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    if this comes out at the rumored price, i think i will pick one of these up for sure.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  3. Godless

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    Bah. Bad ergonomics. Can´t get a decent grip and the price is too high for what it is.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  4. TaoTeJared

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    $400 Cult classic toy.

    I do like the simplicity of it though.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  5. tcole1983

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    I actually find touch screen stuff to be a pain...buttons are much better.

    Lol I looked it up though...horrible pictures with it. I guess I see the point, but for $400 it seems more of a toy. Kind of like all the video cameras for youtube videos.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  6. adamz

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    I like the price and design - small and simple :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
  7. jerl

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    Cute concept, but I don't know what I would do with it. Like Thom Hogan suggested, I probably wouldn't want to adjust the focus more than once ever, so why not just set it when you take the picture. I'm sure someone will find a creative use for it though, so we'll have to see.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  8. jonnyapple

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    tcole1983 said:
    I actually find touch screen stuff to be a pain...buttons are much better.

    I mostly agree with you, but compare moving the live view image or zoomed image review around with a nikon directional pad to doing it with the touch screen on the nex-5n. It is a thin slice of heaven on the sony.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  9. Abhinav

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    actual size of the picture will be 640x480 ?? huh ?

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  10. Abhinav

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    What is Light Field Camera ?

    [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenoptic_camera"]Plenoptic camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

    http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3518/lfcuz.jpg

    From what I could understand. It uses microlenses(just before where sensor is placed )
    Each lens focuses ,and capture light in its path . Later all the images are stacked together.Similar to Compund eye of a Housefly or any other insect .

    http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/gallery2010/fourbythree/18585_1_Krebs.jpg
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    compound eye .

    just think about this in miniature form

    http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00K/00KVfU-35711884.jpg

    More

    http://eagle.tori3.homeip.net:8765/kayoicho/souko2007/200703.files/8401.jpg

    Posted 1 year ago #
  11. kyoshinikon

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    I think it is cool and if there is one camera I could compare it to the original kodak brownie would be the winner. Small boxy and revolutionary (as in not evolutionary design)

    Camera design tends to be evolutionary and rather uninnovative. While this may seem like a gizmo I see the possibility of many people jumping on the opportunity as there will be no more out-of-focus shots...

    Posted 1 year ago #
  12. NSXType-R

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    At $400, I could almost get a Panasonic Lumix LX5 and it'd be enough to get a Canon S95.

    I'd much rather have something like that than to be constrained to their system.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  13. speye_21

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    The point of the Lytro is to capture once and do your manipulation later in software. Most digital media has been moving in that direction for some time. The point is to capture as much information about the scene as possible so you can make your editorial decisions later when you have more time and resources to make it according to your vision. Using a standard camera it's not always possible to capture your vision due to constraints such as time, location, or available equipment.

    I often run into situations where events are occuring simultaneously. I have to pick n' choose which is more important, and often that decision is made for me based on what lens I have currently on the body. Using a Lytro I can capture multiple situations at once then extract my pictures in post as if I were still at the scene. Rather than being forced into capturing one moment and losing the rest, I can capture all of them.

    They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but 1,000 words doesn't say much these days.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  14. Super Shooter

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    tcole1983 said:
    I actually find touch screen stuff to be a pain...buttons are much better.

    That's exactly why I refuse to buy an iphone. I'll take a rotary dial over a touch screen any day.
    /sarcasm/

    Posted 1 year ago #
  15. IndyGeoff

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    Abhinav said:
    actual size of the picture will be 640x480 ?? huh ?

    agreed, worthless to me though someone will buy it to play with I am certain.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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