Lytro Light Field Camera Might Be A Game Changer

We have gone through a lot of changes in the way of camera design and the size of cameras for a century now although they resemble the same photography that we seen a century ago. To keep the photography in track with this constantly updating world, Lytro, Inc., unveiled the light field camera into the market field. This squared monocular like camera is 4.4 inches long 1.6 inches square with 1.46 inches LCD touch screen looks great in design, comes in two models with 8GB and 16GB capable of storing 350 and 750 pictures respectively.

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Lytro Light Field Camera Models

Both the model weights 214 grams and comes with 11 Megarays, 8x optical zoom, constant f/2 lens and 1.46 inches back-lit LCD display (with glass touchscreen). The 8GB model ($339) is available in two colours and named as Graphite and Electric Blue with 32GB ($449) model only in red colour named Red Hot. Lytro cameras, in addition to taking HD-Quality images gives the users power of taking "living images". They call it living images because they let the users to change the focus point whenever they need after taking the photos . Notably, Lytro provides a free desktop application for importing, processing and interacting with living pictures from the camera and also free hosting of pictures taken in Lytro cameras through their #-Link-Snipped-#.

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Touch Display and Viewer

The science behind the camera is light fields which was first captured in Standford University over 15 years ago. Light fields is a combination of the color, intensity and vector direction of the light rays travelling in every direction through every point in the space. These light rays through the data's collected can absolutely define how a scene appears which is impossible through conventional cameras yet. Also these light field camera replaced the most of the hardware employed in the conventional cameras by softwares, to increase the speed of picture-taking and the capability to take high quality pictures at low light.

Lytro cameras hot shots like, capability to change the focus of a picture by both the picture taker and viewer after the picture was taken, changing the image perspective and also flexibility of the image to switch between 2D and 3D views at any time, made my mind to call it 'The Game Changer' and sure it will be in the near future.

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