Last month, we featured supermodel Coco Rocha in the first high fashion photo shoot using a Lytro light field camera. All living pictures taken by Lytro cameras can be refocused interactively by you, our viewers, but living pictures are also inherently 3D. So here we go: Supermodel Coco Rocha, in 3D!
To view the 3D pictures in this post, you need own a pair of anaglyph red/cyan 3D glasses or be able to cross-view 3D pictures. Click through any 3D picture for a larger version. Each picture collection below includes the interactive living picture, R-L cross-view 3D version, and red/cyan anaglyph 3D version.
Photographer: Eric Cheng
Stylist: Rebecca Conran
Art Director: James Conran
Agency: WILHELMINA NY
How many jpeg images can be exported from a single living picture? Specifically, on a horizontal row?
Hopefully this answers your question Ryan, if not please let me know.
I had trouble cross viewing so took the side by side images, increased the width to 6″, switched the left image to the right and the right to the left, printed and then viewed in one of those antique stereo viewers. Beautiful and sharp with good depth. Beats cross viewing and much, much better than viewing the single images with red/blue glasses.
Now if someone would come up with special glasses or a viewer that would view those double images on a computer or iPad screen!
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Hi, I want to check with Lytro tech heads upto what size can one print images taken with the Lytro camera. Also does it have controls to reduce f stops or it constantly shoots at f2 only?
Would love to see some low light, sun set, early morning, sunrise kind of shots/images to evaluate what all this little wonder can do.
Hope to get something in my mailbox.
Lots of asnwers on our support site, including “What options do I have for printing my living pictures.” The Lytro shoots at a constant f2.
How wide an angle does this camera take?
Can I make prints from the image?
Can I see a sample of how 3-D works?
Lots of answers on our support site, including “What options do I have for printing my living pictures.” Check out our 3D demo video on YouTube.
Pretty cool to play with, but can I bring the entire picture into focus simultaneously? If I were publishing or printing a picture, why wouldn’t i just want the whole thing in focus so my eye could choose what to look at rather than needing to click it?
Agree… all of these images suffer from the “look what I can do with my new toy!” syndrome. I almost never want parts of my image to be blurry. This should be relatively easy to fix.
Real 3D requires two different perspectives. With one Lytro camera the stereo basis must be very small and a significant effect can only be generated with objects close to the camera.
Are you 100% sure?
Surely the holographic information captured would provide sufficient depth information to increase the stereo basis in post-prodution?
When you close one eye, do you lose all depth perception? I think very little, actually. You are pointing out a limitation of simple plane capture photography, but light fields and our eyes/brains process a good deal more data.
One does lose the “look behind” ability that binocular vision allows, but that is not essential to depth perception and only has any effect at close distances.
One issue I have always had with past and present 3D imaging systems is that, to my eyes, objects appear in layers, stacked as if in a limited set of planes. It lacks the fluid depth perception that reality gives us. I can hope that the Lytro system will allow something closer to what our eyes see.
From one picture can I generate from left to right several images of the object that was photographed?
hey, lytro . . . I can’t help but wonder if the complex “3D” nature of the data from your sensor might allow adjustment virtually of the aperture in post as well (“stopping down”, of course, from the original aperture of the taken photo by the elimination of certain rays.) This could be every bit as revolutionary as focus change in post, as a very open aperture could be used to capture the image, knowing that the aperture can be virtually stopped down later in post. Of course, if this is possible, shaping of the aperture is also possible . . . for example, oval bokeh like that from an anamorphic lens, or shaping it like a star or a letter.
Also, I wonder if the 3D nature of your sensor data might eventually be used to add CGI lens flare in post.
Can this camera take cross eye 3D images? Is there any other camera tat is capable of taking such images or converting an existing 2D image intro cross eye 3D images ? Pardon my ignorance , I am just curious .
- Sethu
Living pictures taken with the Lytro light field camera capture data that will allow them to be viewed in 3D on any 3D viewing device. Immersive 3D that allows this feature will be available in 2012.
Your side by side view is backwards looks right reversed
the hair strands still looks off
Really rethink those photos of your model. Clumsy and amateurish at best. Sorry guys. Fantastic product however with huge potential. Best of luck.
Very interested in this wee camera! I can see a huge potential for 3D modelling, creation of point clouds etc. I created 3D models from a few thousand images, this would help my workflow immensely!
Let me know if you can send a sample over to New Zealand so I can photograph Christchurch.
Derek,
You nailed it. I was thinking the exact same thing. This camera could revolutionize 3D modeling. I really hope Lytro pushes this aspect and not just plain old 3D images. I would have loved to have had a 3D modeling camera this past summer when trying to model my yard for landscape design. I was initially thinking a laser sensor would do it to measure the distances. I hope the light rays will be accurate enough to give as precise distances.
Don’t expect miracles here. The precision of measuring distances is related to the size of the sensing unit (think of the good old rangefinder). Distances are calculated from angular differences of light rays coming from the same point of an object. The whole camera seems to be quite small …
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Cool, not what I expected it to be but good stuff nonetheless. How do I view the images with my nvidia 3d glasses on a ’3d monitor’ – 120hz refresh 2ms update Asus in other words…
How much variation of IA is possible with this technique?
Can I render out images with different IA’s so I can optimise images for different size displays?
What resolution are the images?
first of all: amazing, and then:
in the upper image, the single hairs that go across the image, they produce some glitches… why is that?
Christian – first of all: thanks, and then: We’d need more detail to understand what you mean by glitch.
The glitch is caused by different in color on the hair strand.
Usually there is a different in specular reflection due to different camera angle in a 3D picture.
But it seems there is something wrong on the transparency calculation of the hair strand….according to the “science inside”, the L and R picture is rendered from the Lightfield data. I guess it is related to that.
As you can see in the original picture, there is nothing wrong on the color of the hair strand.
Let me know when your camera can photograph surfers at 30mph getting tubed…I know the perfect spot.
Makes me wonder – is there a waterproof case that can be used with the Lytro? I can imagine taking some fantastic water sports photo’s, or even underwater photo’s, where there’s lots of interesting depth contrast going on.
amazing technology……
red/cyan glasses view ok, wish I had a Screen-Vu Stereo Viewer to watch the side by side 3-D.
Please consider for 3-D keep action in center, objects clipping into sides tends to break the 3-D effect
shooting back of head looking into mirror may not the best composition material to show off 3-D.
Keep shooting good luck
I had no problem viewing the side-by-side with cross-eyed methods….
Keep in mind they’re showing the light field camera has inherent 3D capability, not that it’s exclusively a 3D cam. The framing makes perfect sense for the original light field demonstrational purpose, IMO.
You do bring up a good point, though, that even though all light field images can be used as 3D, not all should, necessarily.
Looking at either side of the crossview version should answer all those questions about completely focused images that so many people have. It’s a crying shame if that’s the only thing someone used this device for, though.
it’s just incredible!