Lytro's Light Field Camera Transforms Photography

Lytro's Light Field Camera Transforms Photography Startup Lytro is behind a brand new type of camera technology called "light field" photography. With the large amount of data that the camera captures, there are more features to come. At the same time, for the viewer of the image, there's an interactive and discovery part of the Lytro photos that didn't exist before. In the video above you can see a light field image Cheng takes of me and how he shifts the focus after he loads the photo onto a laptop. to essentially see around objects. Viewers can find interesting parts of a photo, say, in the background that include a whole new spin on the story that an image tells. There is no mirror since there is in an SLR camera, and the technical requirements are different from previous cameras. Because the photos have so a lot more information, photos can also be viewed with three dimensional effects. You'll also notice the radically form factor of the new camera, which is markedly different from your traditional SLR or point and shoot camera. There are also additional parallax features that the company is working on that would enable people to essentially "move" the perspective of what you're seeing in the image, i. What's next? Mountain View, Calif. For photographers this means a deeper story can be told with each image. For example, you presently can't edit a Lytro photo in a program like Photoshop because it's so different from a typical digital image, so Lytro is working to address that. ) Photographers can decide, after shooting, which part of the photo they want to emphasize by setting the focus. Other new features include the power to drag the mouse to focus on different parts of a picture, or focus on the entire image. The Lytro camera is on sale now at the company's website, though there can be a backlog of demand. Lytro's Light Field Camera Transforms Photography Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 01/04/2012