Pic First, Focus After - 2D & 3D - Wow! Post-capture focusing with Lytro (via Wired UK)

via wired.co.uk

"A former Stanford PhD student is promising a camera that "will forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures".

The Lytro camera is unique in allowing the photographer to focus after they have taken their image, change from 2D to 3D views and shift the perspective of the scene. Hit this link, to experiment yourself with some images.

It was designed around a concept called Light Field Capture. The Lytro team explains this as "the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space -- [or] all the light rays in a scene". Conventional cameras take the light ray information and collate it into "a single amount of light", which then hits the film or sensor..."

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