Lytro Demo at AsiaD (Video)

I want to have this! I like 1:1 photos as well.

Walt is kind of mean… anybody else sense his mood change midway through the presentation?

Excellent questions: essentially, how will images from Lytro compare in resolution, iso and exposure latitude with other pocket cameras? Also, while millions more pictures are now shared digitally than printed, there remain photographers who see the printed page, and especially wall display, as the ultimate medium for their best output, and this starts with a single image that displays the artist’s desired focus throughout.

Could this be a solution in search of a problem? Are out-of-focus pictures a widespread issue with today’s cameras?

For concerned photographers there have existed for some time ready methods for achieving virtually unlimited depth of field: In PS 5, Adobe offers a sort-of HDR for focus. That is, if one makes several shots at various focus points, Photoshop can combine them into a single photo with depth of field from inches to miles. My 3-year old Canon Rebel T1i, and subsequent models, offer focus bracketing (which, of course, can produce the source shots for the Photoshop combining of images.)

On a positive note, neither the Canon nor the Adobe methods provide a way to do it all at once in a single box. Most promising, perhaps, would be an every-persons’ camera providing more ease, as well as lower cost and learning curve, than the combination of hardware and software I’ve described.

What may be of most interest, this could be the answer to the golden fleece of 3-D without glasses.

Very interesting technology, looking forward to seeing this camera in the shops.

Really not sure about the ergonomics of the design though!

No shutter control?