Lytro- A Revolutionary Way to Take and Experience Pictures


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Submitted by Megha Agarwala on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 6:33pm.

This is one of the purest innovations I've heard in recent times. Lytro is a light field camera which captures the entire field light, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space. This is unlike the conventional cameras which capture only a single plane of light.

Since you capture the color, intensity, and direction of all the light, it opens up unimaginable possibilities such as focusing after taking the picture. Since you can focus after taking the pictures, there is no autofocus, which means that there is no shutter delay, so you actually capture the moment you intended to capture.

Lytro is a product of Ren Ny's award winning PhD work on light field technology with best thesis and best Ph.D. Dissertation awards.

What do you think of this technology? Should we bring Lytro in the EdLab to explore image innovations with this award winning technology?

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Manav Malhotra Says:
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 2:32pm

This is awesome.

This reminds me of the 1 trillion frames per second camera developed at MIT. It's really neat. Though, one thing I find annoying is Professor Raskar saying "we can see photons, or light particles, moving through space." That's somewhat sloppy language that can be confusing in this kind of video. Your eye or any camera requires light to hit it to register. We cannot see light that's traveling by without it hitting our eyes. What they are looking at is reflected light entering the camera used to construct the photon path, not photons passing by.

Kate Meersschaert Says:
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 10:16am

Good clarification Manav & great find Megha! Perhaps you could send creators your post and hope they send us a camera to test at the lab!?

Pranav Garg Says:
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 11:41am

I agree with Fred, I am not sure how it works but it seems definitely interesting seeing the buzz it has created online.
This was also cool not sure how do people can do it. try it to play with it

http://www.havve.net/things/focusme/

Demetri Lales Says:
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 11:48am

Pranav that link was totally awesome! I get how this camera works and it seems like you can take picture quickly without having to worry about things like focusing, which with normal cameras you need to adjust first before taking a picture. This one seems to give you the freedom to edit the focus after taking the picture saving you some time.

Fred Rossoff Says:
Wed, 12/21/2011 - 10:02am

I'm not sure I understand it, but it sounds super cool...

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