Lytro Light Field Camera helps you stay focused all the time

lytroThere are some gadgets out there that are really worth taking a second look, or a third even, sometimes. The £399.99 Lytro Light Field Camera would definitely be one of them, where you would never be able to lose focus of your subject whenever you want to capture something for posterity. Arriving in four different shades, Electric Blue, Graphite, Moxie Pink and Seaglass Green, the Lytro Light Field Camera would allow you to actually refocus pictures right after you have snapped them – now how about that?

Not only that, with this particular device, you are also able to shift the perspective, where it will provide you with the equivalent experience as though you are in an extremely short 3D movie. With the ability to create tactile living images that tell a story, the Lytro Light Field Camera would certainly ensure that you would no longer look at regular still photos with the same sense of wonder anymore, since those would be static and extremely boring. Instagram who? Just how does the Lytro Light Field Camera deliver its magic? It will record the entire light field instead of just a 2D image, and since there is no need for autofocus, this does away with shutter delays, letting you capture that shot on the spot.

Arriving in an anodized aluminium housing, the Lytro Light Field Camera is strong yet incredibly lightweight, while its textured silicon grip allows you to shoot with one or hand effortlessly, although we will not hold you guilty for using both hands.
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Lytro camera getting parallax effect and 3D display support, lands in Hong Kong (video)

Lytro light field camera on pool cue

Lytro isn’t done extending the usefulness of its light field camera just because we have manual controls. Another update due by the end of the year will take advantage of that focus-independent sensor to allow a parallax-based 3D effect in photos: invoke a ‘full’ focus in reviewing shots and you can start poking around the scene in a limited way without having ever touched a dual-sensor camera. Appropriately, we’re also getting support for examining photos on 3D monitors and TVs that emphasize the added depth. The promised features come hand-in-hand with Lytro’s immediate availability in Hong Kong, where 8GB blue and gray cameras are selling for $3,888 HKD ($502 US) and the 16GB red model goes for $4,688 HKD ($605). Check out our Chinese crew’s eyes-on look at the parallax effect in a video after the break.

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Lytro camera gets manual controls, new colors and accessories for exacting light-field fans

Lytro camera gets manual controls, new colors and accessories for exacting lightfield fans

A frequent gripe of Lytro camera owners has been the hands-off nature of the photography, with that signature infinite focus about the only real fine-tuning that’s on tap. As of a fresh firmware upgrade, the light-field camera is much friendlier to demanding shooters. The unconventional point-and-shoot now lets owners manually adjust the ISO sensitivity (80 to 3,200) and shutter speed (1/250th of a second to 8 seconds) as well as lock the exposure or invoke a neutral density filter. Regardless of their precision demands, anyone who was already sold on the concept still gets a few perks with today’s refresh: the 8GB model now comes in Seaglass green and a Target-exclusive Moxie Pink, and there’s both a $30 sleeve as well as a $60, accessory-friendly case for those who’ve fully committed to the Lytro lifestyle. Neither upgrade will bring higher resolutions or video, but they’ll go a long way towards accommodating those who were at least on the fence. Check out an interactive sample of the shutter speed control’s benefits after the break.

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How would you change the Lytro?

How would you change the Lytro

Few products make everyone here at Engadget quite as giddy with excitement as Lytro’s light-field camera. Given how regularly we need to photograph things, we were desperate to know if this was going to revolutionize the way we snapped pictures. It had more than a few things going for it, innovative product design, great engineering, it was fast, responsive and had a great UI. However, the pictures themselves were of a low resolution, and the depth-of-field trickery only works with extreme close-up-and-background shots where you can mess around with your bokkeh. As nice as it is in theory (and practice, on a well-lit day), it’s certainly not going to replace your DSLR any time soon — but given that the company’s presumably working on version 2.0 of the device, what would you suggest they tweak?

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