The first production units of the Lytro light field camera have started shipping:
Those of you that scurried to get an early spot in the pre-order cue for Lytro’s upcoming camera, ought to carefully skim your inboxes for an email confirming shipment of your infinite focusing shooter. Per a ton of tips from you, in addition to a post from the company’s official blog, early orders of the unconventionally shaped camera that allows you to refocus after the fact are now en route to abodes stateside. When we played with it at its launch event, we came away impressed, yet ultimately longed for the underlying technology to be licensed to others — something the company maintains it’s actively exploring.
I’m excited. I’m in the market for a new digital camera and this may force me to buy a Mac.
If you’re not aware of it, the light field camera is a completely new technology for taking pictures that allows the photographer to focus the picture after it has been taken among other things. Other benefits include no shutter delay.
My son wants one. So I imagine I’m about to be manipulated.
If it works as advertised, it may be as revolutionary as the Brownie or the Land Camera.
I at some point there will be no more fuzzy UFO/Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Ghost pictures “proving” said existence. Too bad!