 - Gregory LaGrange  Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
New kind of camera Check out this new kind of camera New technology, good and bad thing? http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1110/gallery.lytro_closer_look.fortune/index.html
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- Bojan Bencic Contact Bojan Bencic Bojan Bencic's Gallery |
If it works as advertized it is a very interesting new technology. It could help a lot of people take better (well, sharper) photos. I know I messed up some promissing photos with bad focus. Sometimes you just don't have the time to set everything right and auto focus can get confused. Think action or wildlife photography. That said, it is just a tool and what you do with it is another thing. Can't really think of anything bad about it.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Greg, I read about this camera back in June and their interactive website is fun to play with as you can change the focus from a flower in the foreground to the person behind the flower in the background but I could never get them both in focus at the same time. Maybe they have fixed this but I still would have to try it myself. Lytro.com is the site. Cheers, carlton
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Wasn't too serious about it being bad. I bet it's the same thing that I've seen in a movie that's been around for a while, it can interpret what it should look like based on edges. Maybe it's become faster. Like reversing a gaussian blur. I wonder how much detail it can actual create in something originally out of focus. But I've come across so many photographers already arrogant enough about a lot of things and reading about it, I can just see some of them telling how good they did while just pointing in the general direction while keeping the button down. Adding focus later.
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- Bojan Bencic Contact Bojan Bencic Bojan Bencic's Gallery |
I'd love to learn a bit more about how it is done (anybody?) and then play with it. It would be great if you could get it all in focus or choose your DOF in retrospect. That could really change the way we take photos. One bad thing does come to mind: great photographs would still be great photographs, but we would hear a lot of rants from old school purists that would claim that it's not "real" photography. Remember film vs. digital or manual focus vs. auto focus? Technology won each time.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Lytro article from Chase Jarvis... http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/
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