Thank you all for the thousands of comments you’ve shared here on the Lytro Blog, on our Facebook and Twitter pages, and via email. You inspire us!
We wanted to share Barrie’s comment on Ren’s initial blog post as one that stood out for our team. We especially appreciate the poetry of the term “memory-shot” that Barrie has introduced:
“I have lived in a world of both photography, landscape painting and computers – for more than 72 years. What I’ve just read – skimming through your dissertation, for the past hour or so – has made me think of a way of describing where you are taking us. Some of my friends in the camera club I belong to will need such an explanation !
I appears to me that what you have given us is essentially a means to capture, not just a photograph, as we have come to know one, but through some brilliant software – a means to modify that photograph – to allow us to ‘re-produce’ the photograph and re-present it (at will); allowing it to be re-viewed by others at will.
In short … the ‘photograph’ is no longer a simple one-dimensional snap-shot – locking in a moment in physical space and time – it is a ‘memory-shot, recording all that the camera ‘saw’ when the shutter was pressed. Whilst the software with which to view it can be likened to a ‘memory-brush’ that allows us to repaint the view as it suits us.
I can’t wait to find what I can do with my ‘real’ brushes and paints and a camera full of ‘memory shots’ after a field trip.
And the concept of a new, software, ‘painting program’ that follows the finger tips on a touch screen is simply AMAZING !!
Thank you for adding another dimension to my ‘will to live’ …”