In the last couple of weeks I have run across a lot of interesting technologies in my continuous online searching. The Lytro camera technology may be the technology which will hit you (and me) the hardest. This light capturing technology has the potential to profoundly revolutionize photography…i.e. a major paradigm change may be coming.
I’m sure that you will be hearing more about this .
The Making of Lytro
http://k9ventures.com/blog/2011/06/22/the-making-of-lytro
Rarely does a technology come along that is so fundamental in its impact. None of the articles that you may have seen in the press about Lytro capture the full extent of what this does (yet). The impact of Ren’s technology is so fundamental that, if successful, it will completely change an entire market. Photography and imaging will never ever be the same again. I will not go into some of these details here because I believe that it is the company’s prerogative to make that information available, as and when they’re ready. But needless to say, I am a firm believer that this is technology that defines what it means to “change the world.”
Lytro’s light field camera captures ‘unprecedented’ images; lets you choose focus later
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/light-field-camera-captures-unprecedented-images-lets-you-cho
A Silicon Valley start-up called Lytro claims it’s working on a consumer camera that uses light field technology to radically change the way we take, edit, and experience photographs. Whereas a normal digital camera captures a snapshot of light hitting a sensor, a light field camera first separates rays of light in order to individually record their color, intensity, and direction. This extra information opens up a world of possibilities, including the ability to focus on any depth of field within a taken photo, observe a 3D-type effect even without specs, and boost images taken in extremely low light. Although light field cameras have been around for some time, they haven’t been commercially viable. Now though, Lytro has secured backing worth $50million to bring a "competitively priced" camera to market "later this year" — we’ll see if they can beat similar plenoptic technology from Adobe to market. Can’t wait that long? Check out the interactive photo (click on Elvis to re-focus) after the break, plus a video that also shows off the 3D effect. Both are the definition of mind-blowing.
Lytro
http://www.lytro.com
