Have you all heard of this new device?

This is what it looks like:


Comes in different colors. What's so different about it is the ability to focus on something AFTER you take a picture.

Yup...AFTER you take it. This really makes me think of the possibilities. No more worrying about if something is in focus. Just shoot and then tap on where you want the focus to be. Very cool.

But after borrowing the above device from a friend, I found it lacking in resolution. Neat toy, but hopefully either they really develop this or someone buys them up. At $400 for the cheaper version, yeah, it's not a cheap toy.

If you want to play with pictures taken by others, go here: https://pictures.lytro.com

I may pick one up once I get gainfully employed and they improve it some more.

They don't give specs on mega pixels but they say it has HD quality output.

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I tried some pictures on the web page and it really does work! Pretty neat. Someday it might get affordable for the masses.

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I think the equivalent is 1-2 MP

Yeah.. HD for video 1080 x 180.
The disappointing thing about lytro is the final output for stills.. about 1 MP. Bleh.

That's pretty much useless except for on screen display.

What I found odd is that for an 8G unit they say it only holds 350 "living" pictures. It seems like there should be enough resolution to give a higher MP. Have to read up more on it when I have the time.

Those files are pretty big I think because they contain a lot of information.

It's lots and lots of lo res photos.. that's how you "focus" where you want.

Was thinking that also. Be interesting to see how it develops.

Dave