Comments on: The Focus Later Camera Shows Up On A Fashion Shoot

By: Rich Maher

Rich Maher — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Like the commercial used to say ” Where’s the beef”. I think we’re being jerked off.

By: Jesse Lash

Jesse Lash — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:28:00 +0000

I lol’d

By: Kris Armstead

Kris Armstead — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:14:00 +0000

as I initially stated… this camera is a neat device for consumers, but… it’s a gimmick. It’s not a tool that a professional photographer would be able to truly utilize, because it is essential taking the “art” of your photo away from you, and giving it to the viewer. Thus allowing it to be “everyone’s art”. I don’t want a camera that allows anyone to change my image. I want my shot to be MY vision.

Plus… how would lytro work in print? lol.

By: Steve Causon

Steve Causon — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:56:00 +0000

First dance – when trying to focus in the dark – even pro DSLRs hunt for focus sometimes. Or for super quick spur of the moment shots where you don’t have time even for Autofocus.

By: Keith Bradshaw

Keith Bradshaw — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:35:00 +0000

In the future it’s going to be fun to adjust speed, aperture, iso and lighting in post. This camera is just the tip of an iceberg.

By: Kevin Hosford

Kevin Hosford — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:04:00 +0000

Another thing that just crossed my mind is that it claims the light is received at all angles possible which is how it manages to receive all focal planes! but for its sensor to receive light from all angles possible then the sensor would have to be exposed directly as any lens would distort the light somewhat (If only by a niggle) when it travels down the barrel towards the sensor unless the lens can invert then de-invert the direction of light instead of conventional lenses just focusing the light towards a single sensor (I’m only a 23 year old Irish guy so if I’m wrong go easy on me XD )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:46:00 +0000

If CSI can enlarge a photo 10000 times and see a detailed face of a man in the reflection of a human eye taken with a camera phone, they don’t need such a special camera! Only if they would like to see a face of an alien 500 light years away in a glasses’ reflection :D

By: Keith Bradshaw

Keith Bradshaw — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:48:00 +0000

This could be a quote about the first digital cameras in 1982.

By: Jens Marklund

Jens Marklund — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:36:00 +0000

I feel like these flash animations doesn’t show you anything. It’s not an embedded program that handles the file, feels like they just chose 3-4 points/distances you can focus on each photo. And they are way too small to notice how exact it is. Would like to see this with the dof of a 85 1.4 or something. As people has said before – looks like it’s just shot at a tiny aperture, recorded some distances and then put a blur filter on it depending on where you click.

By: janne aavasalo

janne aavasalo — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:38:00 +0000

If the tech is indeed real, I wouldn’t judge it too much at this point.

Since we don’t know the specs of the camera itself or the lens used, it’s impossible to know how the photos will look with an RTM camera and even more so if the technology can be put in a pro body and combined with pro lenses.

Alexei Rivera brings out a good point about post-processing images from a Lytro camera. I don’t see Lightroom supporting them any time soon, but then again, I might be wrong (I often am). Initial guess is that post-processing would have to be done in an external editor and doing it without flattening the image would be quite processor intensive task.

One interesting thing with this camera would be to make animations out of a single shot like Joshua K suggested above. That would bring a new dimension to a slideshow or you could let the people choose the focus point themselves. I’d think that would be pretty cool with decent resolution and a pad-like device.

In any case and even if one doesn’t really see the “point” for this kind of camera, this kind of new technology might open up some other possibilities which no-one can even think of today. In which case it’s more than welcome and I wish the best of luck to the Lytro camera.

P.S. The modeling bugged the heck out of me also.