Over the past few weeks, Lytro employees and select testers in the field have been using prototype Lytro light field cameras to document their lives outside of the office. We’ve updated our Living Pictures Gallery with 11 new light field pictures; the selection includes pictures taken by Kira Wampler (Lytro’s VP of Marketing), Heather Champ, and professional photographers Jason Bradley and Philip Andrews.
Especially exciting are some of the pictures that Philip took at the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis after STS-135, the last shuttle mission ever. We’ve got an interview with Philip in the works, and will post more about the experience soon.
I want the red one.
Do you plan to ship outside of USA? There is reason why you do not?
For now, we only ship in the U.S. If you haven’t done so already, you can sign up to be notified when we ship to your country.
No international shipping, guys please is 2011.
This seems like an amazing camera. But as someone mentioned earlier, there are no night shots. At F2 I would think your site would be filled with them. At first glance of the images on your site, it looked like a bright Sharp F11 image with software that blurred what you didn’t want to be in focus, like FocusPoint software. I really want to purchase this but I would like to see images done in low light so I can see the power of the F2 lens. Also, what is the MP or size of the images taken. I may have missed this in browsing the site.
You’ll find lots of FAQs on our Support site, including information about printing, if that is the reason for your MP question. There is also an FAQ on shooting in low light.
This is really awesome, i’m speechless! When will you provide shipping the Lytro Cam to Europe?
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Is it possible to focus more than one plane (all?) in the light field?
Hi there, I was just wondering, you say that your technology works especially well at night, I dont see one night photo with dark content or a multiple of them to see what you can do compared to a regular camera. Also I wonder, most of your photos have a lot of grain visible. Someone wrote somewhere, that you work with micro lenses, each microlense being kind of one lightbeam. This sounds plausible, but it also sounds like you can’t make a 21MP camera with it in the quality of a professional SLR. is that statement somewhat correct? Maybe you can kindly post a reply.
Love the curiosity. You can read more about our technology on the Science Inside page of our website, which also includes a link to Ren’s dissertation. These offer more details about how we’re bringing light field technology out of the lab to make a light field camera everyone can use. Over time, we plan to continue developing new cameras that explore the full potential of this technology.
Dear Lytro, what people most often want is *all* of the image to be in focus. Can you do that? Please provide examples of this result!!!
Actually, when I use a point & shoot camera, I find that I often don’t want the background to be in focus (even though it is). So having the ability to reduce the depth of field to a certain level would be a great feature!
I got the impression from reading the thesis paper that you could also expand the depth of focus so that everything in the image is in focus.
Having (nearly) everything in focus is something I’ve had to adapt to with point & shoot. My favorite lens with the old SLR was a 100 mm, nice for portraits of people or things. Even with zoom, the current p&s is a very different little beast. I’m also still not up on remembering that I have the p&s in a pocket or bag. I missed getting some shots at home-made Halloween crows this morning. Water bottles with black and orange plastic sheeting.
I seriously can’t wait for Lytro to be launched :) … the sad part is, being so far away from where the excitement is (I live in Malaysia). Anyway, this is really exciting stuff and can’t wait for when it’ll eventually be available here (err…. it will be, right?)
Adrian – Initially, we will sell in the U.S. only.
that’s to sad :-( But on the other hand we (the outsiders ;-) may get an already improved camera :-)
As some mentioned already earlier it seams that there is still quite heavy grain in the Lytrographs. I do sincerely wish you great wisdom (and a bit of luck too) that you find a way to overcome this in the time to come.
Hi,
FYI, I tested your pictures on a HP TOUCHPAD and they display without any pb. I am really impressed by the quality of the result.
ZK
Nice additions to the gallery. I look forward to reading the interview.