I did not realize we owned a Lytro camera until today, so I thought I would share with everyone a little about it (although I've never seen this camera go out, but why not). The Lytro camera is a square tube about 5 inches long (almost pocket sized). This light field camera is specifically designed and capable of refocusing images after they've been taken. To do this, the camera uses a light field sensor that captures the color, intensity, and vector direction of the rays of light. This directional information is lost with traditional cameras. These three components - color, intensity, and direction -create a blueprint for the reconstruction of elements of the image such as focus point. To sum it up, the Lytro camera lets you selectively change focus in images after they are taken, which admittedly sounds pretty cool.
However, it is questionable who would need to use a camera like the Lytro. The technology is ingenious, but in reality, most people probably would not require such a camera (which is probably why no one has really checked it out here at SMDC). Despite this, I did play with the camera for a bit today and it was interesting to see how different in style and technology the camera is from traditional point and shoot cameras.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Best,
Shannon
Using it also requires downloading a very specific app and it has some weird social media defaults. So it can't be used with the Adobe suite like a regular camera can.
ReplyDeleteIt's bad that the great features with the camera are so outweighed by its inconveniences.