Comments on: How Can This Be? An Image You Can Focus After You Capture It

By: Mars Oliva

Mars Oliva — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:59:00 +0000

Now.

Combine This sensor and the Dragon Sensor.That now imagine what shots you could get without a focus pull.

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:40:00 +0000

and the best part? this camera and its film are TOTALLY INVISIBLE! hahahah

By: shloke

shloke — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:21:00 +0000

TechCrunch interviewed Lytro CEO and founder Ren Ng. Quite an impressive session with some details about its immersive 3D feature. Check this out:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/21/lytro-launches-to-transform-photography-with-50m-in-venture-funds-tctv/

By: Alexander Petricca

Alexander Petricca — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:29:00 +0000

Mankind seems obsessed with developing the easy route for the masses, and offering situations with instant satisfaction. Why bother learning, putting effort in and even thinking.

By: Alex Roman

Alex Roman — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:00 +0000

Wait! Their trying to make a camera? Where’s the camera that took these pictures in the first place? And some of the photos on the site have like 3 focus points, there was one where I click on the roof in the background and it focused on the closest thing next it which was a flower that in reality was about 10 feet away from the roof. FAKE

By: Keith Bradshaw

Keith Bradshaw — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:02:00 +0000

I’m not surprised or doubtful at all. Just wait until the lighting software takes over. We’ll be able to manipulate light in post using virtual soft boxes, windows, sun etc. Cameras will record distance points giving a 3D type image for software modeling of any kind of light. Focus, f-stops, speed and lighting will all be done in post.

By: Kyle Johnson

Kyle Johnson — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:41:00 +0000

adobe first showed the ability to do this a few years ago except they were a little more extreme being able to paint focus, and being able to change the the angle slightly. they used a 28 lens array to achieve this it took 24 hours to render.

By: JW

JW — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:17:00 +0000

It could totally be real! But, Lytro plans on putting out a point n shoot with this tech. And, they didn’t show any actual hardware. Which means they may just be modifying a high mega-pixel camera to shoot several images really quick then stack them in software. And then give the camera itself a lower megapixel rating. For a pro photographer this won’t work, which may be why they are targeting the point n shoot crowd. When a big company like Adobe says the tech is not currently feasible for consumers, and a small start-up thinks they can make it cheap enough for the point n shoot crowd, there must be some sort of compromise going on.

By: j.j.

j.j. — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:28:00 +0000

Um focus stacking? I believe I learned that here. Anyways, make a product, get people to believe in it, and create a press release that you send to multiple news outlets and bam, you’re gonna get noticed.
Oh, what’s the deal with the “black” images on their websites in the first place? At lease the invisible camera was interesting…

By: Jaymes Poudrier

Jaymes Poudrier — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Adobe did a presentation years ago in a Photoshop demonstration of things they were testing for future versions. Manipulating images taken with a plenoptic camera was one of them. It is real, the tech has been here for a while, but like others have mentioned it cuts down big time on the resolution. If they can figure out a better way to do it then it will be more photographer friendly. Those that criticize the quality of the images can take that up with the person who took them. As far as resolution of images that is a decent concern, then again I doubt this was aimed for the pro market, who should be able to focus their images properly the first time. What would be cool is a plenoptic video camera. Imagine filming without the need to do manual focus pulls. :)