Lytro Photography -- the future?

katylava had a video to watch said Tue, Apr 22nd 2014 at 9:32am ET

I've been fascinated with the Lytro for a few years now... keep telling myself I'm going to buy one someday. They just came out with a new camera way outside my price range at $1,499.

Wondering what others think about this type of photography... will it stick around? Will it be the standard someday? Or is it too gimicky?

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JonT said Tue, Apr 22nd 2014 at 10:49am ET:

I don't know much (or anything, really) about photography but I really like the idea and it seems like the kind of thing that really creative people will get a lot of use out of.

Here's some articles with more info:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/the-lytro-illum-is-where-light-field-technology-meets-real-photography/

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/lytro-illum/

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dave said Tue, Apr 22nd 2014 at 5:12pm ET:

A friend got the original one. It was really fun to play with…for about an hour. They'd probably do really well to rent these out at tourist places, and hopefully camera stores will rent these high-end models, but I can't see owning one.

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katylava said Wed, Apr 23rd 2014 at 5:01pm ET:

@dave Was your friend really into photography? What I hope for if I buy one, is that I can take a picture real fast without worrying about focussing, then I can process it (and focus it) later. How fast did it take pictures?

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- It's not super-fast...probably about 1 full second for a shot (but without the blur a full second slr shot would cause).
  
  dave said Thu, Apr 24th 2014 at 9:38am ET
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- So... probably not good for catching anything moving then.
  
  katylava said Thu, Apr 24th 2014 at 11:34am ET
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