Win Lytro Cameras! Photography Contest and Sweepstakes

Today, we’re launching Lytro’s first light field photography contest, Share the Fun, which also happens to be THE first light field photography contest ever.

Each week through the end of September, five Finalists will get their pictures featured on the Lytro.com gallery and will win a Lytro accessories package worth $125. One of those Finalists will win the grand prize, a Master Light Field Photography Lesson with our Director of Photography, Eric Cheng, along with 5 Lytro cameras to share with their friends.

We have amazing judges who will help determine the winners:

Eric Cheng, world-renowned underwater photographer and Lytro’s Director of Photography
Heather Champ, currently at Findery and Flickr’s former Community Manager, never leaves home without a camera
Richard Koci Hernandez, Emmy award winning video and multimedia producer
Matt Buchanan, our first weekly guest judge, writes about technology, food and drink and is the editor for FWD, Buzzfeed’s tech site
You! (And, you could win your own Lytro camera just for voting.)

Vote for your favorite pictures, or add your own, here. You can increase your chances of winning by voting or adding a new picture every day.

aimerkhan

you have been announcing the sweepstakes winner names every week, this time there are no winners?
any specific reason for this?
http://wingtangwong.com/ Wing Wong

I’ve got a Facebook account, but I DO NOT do apps. If this was a simple voting contest, that’s cool. I’m happy to enter my email address, but Facebook Apps are notorious for being huge privacy leaks and I’ve no desire to spam my contacts and friends with contest requests and other business advertisement.

Would be cool to participate, but not if it means linking my FB account with yet another custom FB App. :(

Lytro obviously took the time to develop a gallery and voting mechanism on Facebook’s API and I’m sure that was done because FB offers the greatest level of social exposure. However, people have been wanting to take their social networks back, and not be an extension of business interests as part of their social interaction.

Lytro could have taken a fairly low-tech approach and done something like:
- Survey Monkey forms to implement a voting form.
- Google Docs forms so that they can save votes in a spreadsheet
Agnes

Why are winners announced before the end of the week? Is your headquarters on the other side of the International Dateline?
- Lytro
  
  They won for the previous week. It takes a few days for the judges to evaluate the submissions and then we announce the Finalists as soon as we have their results.
Anonymous

More chances to win for me! YAY Facebook! :D
http://www.facebook.com/deepm Deep Mehta

When are you guys going to include Canada? I’ve gotten excited at the oppty so many times from your emails only to find out Canada doesn’t get squat.
- http://lytro.com/ Lytro
  
  We are working on ways to expand distribution outside of the U.S. Stay tuned, or sign up to be notified http://lytro.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c17b6faf056b275544863ecdd&id=294fa9d70f
Observer

Yes, enzocann, It’s a shame… companies relying only on social networks. Guess, some of us will continue to only do business that do not intentionally restrict their customer/client base to the electronic social networking world. Hummm… bet there are opportunities for Entrepreneurs for a forgotten group of aging baby boomers !!
sidnancy

You really screwed us on this one! Facebook only? Really???
adam

I’m with the rest of the commenters. While the “no purchase necessary” law doesn’t really come into play here as facebook is a “free” service, requiring membership to a thirdparty site and further the authorization of a ‘facebook app’ to view personal information and post on your behalf seems like to much of a privacy buy-in from my perspective.
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Angie

Such a bummer. I would love to enter to win a Lytro camera but don’t use Facebook at all. In the future will you consider doing a contest that doesn’t involve social networking?
- rjs3273
  
  I agree. Tying it requiring membership of one particular proprietary online community (facebook in this case) will prevent me from wanting to be involved. It is a shame; I just went through all the pictures to find my favourinte and then discovered I could not actually vote. I presume the point is that using the facebook infrastructure for free saves Lytro having to maintain any of the software for log in, IDs and votes for themselves.
enzocann

I really would like to enter some shots,but I don’t use the social network “facebook”what are my options?
- http://lytro.com/ Lytro
  
  Unfortunately, this contest will only be on Facebook.
  - Charlie
    
    Unfortunately, I won’t be winning this contest because I refuse Facebook. But that’s OK, because I also have the ability to refuse buying a Lytro.