Capture everything - instantly.
Lytro is transforming the camera into a powerful computational photography platform, forever changing the way everyone takes and experiences pictures!
The Lytro is the only consumer camera that lets people instantly capture a scene just as they see it by recording a fundamentally richer set of data than ever before. Unlike conventional cameras, the Lytro light field camera (starting at $399) captures all the rays of light in a scene – 11 million light rays of data (or 11 megarays), including the direction of each ray, something conventional cameras don’t do – providing new capabilities never before possible, such as the ability to focus a picture after it’s taken! And focusing after the fact, means no auto-focus motor. No auto-focus motor means no shutter delay. So, capture the moment you meant to capture not the one a shutter-delayed camera captured for you. The pocket-sized camera, which offers a powerful 8x optical zoom and f/2 lens in an iconic design, creates interactive ―living pictures‖ that can be endlessly refocused.
Available in three colors: Electric Blue, Graphite and Red Hot.
Lytro cameras feature a light field sensor that collects the color, intensity, and the direction of every light ray flowing into the camera, capturing a scene in four dimensions. To process this additional information, Lytro cameras contain a light field engine that allows camera owners to refocus pictures directly on the camera.
Left: Lens. Middle: Light Field Sensor. Right: Light Field Engine 1.0
The very first light fields were captured at Stanford University over 15 years ago. The most advanced light field research required a roomful of cameras tethered to a supercomputer. The light field is a core concept in imaging science, representing fundamentally more powerful data than in regular photographs. The light field fully defines how a scene appears. It is the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space. Conventional cameras cannot record the light field.
Lens: The Lytro Light Field Camera starts with an 8X optical zoom, f/2 aperture lens. The aperture is constant across the zoom range allowing for unheard of light capture.
Light Field Sensor: From a roomful of cameras to a micro-lens array specially adhered to a standard sensor, the Lytro’s Light Field Sensor captures 11 million light rays.
Light Field Engine 1.0: The Light Field Engine replaces the supercomputer from the lab and processes the light ray data captured by the sensor. The Light Field Engine travels with every living picture as it is shared, letting you refocus pictures right on the camera, on your desktop and online.
Seeing in 3D: Coming 2012! Captured as a full light field, all pictures taken with the Lytro are inherently 3D. Special light field algorithms will be applied to the light field pictures to enable viewing on any 3D display and to enable viewers to shift the perspective of the scene. #Wishlisted ❚
Electric Blue, 8GB Light Field Camera.
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