Topic: Lytro camera

[scottws]

Anyone see these things?  The idea is that you just capture whatever light is coming into the camera at a specific, statically-set aperture.  The data is saved in a custom format, and then you can play with the focus of the image after-the-fact.  It's actually really cool.

The Lytro website has a bunch of images you can play with.  One of them that really impressed me is one that was obviously a reflection of sorts.  It showed a reflection of an outdoor patio and adjacent home but you could see a rim of some sort.  At first I thought it might have been a coffee mug, so I clicked on the "rim" but it turned out to be the bezel of a Weber grill thermometer and the various markings and needle came into focus and you could barely make out the reflection.  Neat!

http://pictures.lytro.com/hickabee/pictures/213063/embed

[Xessive]

Oh yeah! Engadget had a hands-on with them last October (2011).

Impressive image fidelity but they lack in everything else. They don't suck or anything just don't toss out your old camera just yet.

It is incredible technology.

EDIT:
I gotta admit, I love its design. It's so minimalistic!

[Cools!]

Yeah, I saw this a while back. Adobe was (is?) experimenting with a lens that allowed picking of focus afterwards in Photoshop as well. As a camera, I don't care about it: it's too limiting and actually too bulky for a P&S. However, I'd love to have this functionality for micro/macro photography because in the field it's often very hard to nail the focus.