This is something that I didn’t think was possible. Shoot Now – Focus later. With “Lytro” you can take photographs and later you can decide which part of the photo you want in focus. The Lytro website is great as it explains all the “Science Bits” and more importantly it allows you mess around with all kinds of photos in the gallery – just by clicking on the out of focus area of the image it comes in to sharp focus.
Living Pictures
After a few minutes trying out this you start believing the tagline – ‘Living Pictures’ When did all this start? The CEO of Lytro, Ren Ng who launched the Lytro on the 21st June 2011 says “This journey started for me eight years ago when I was in the PhD program at Stanford University. I loved photography then as I do now, but I was frustrated and puzzled by the apparent limitations of cameras. For example, I remember trying to take photos of Mei-Ahn, the five-year-old daughter of a close friend, but because she was so full of life, it was nearly impossible to capture the fleeting moments of her smile or perfectly focus the light in her eyes.
That experience inspired me to start the research that became my dissertation on light field photography, which had capabilities beyond what I could have ever hoped for. The journey soon accelerated with a full-body plunge into the world of entrepreneurship, with a dream to share this new technology with the world.”
You have to visit the Lytro website to know what it’s all about HERE
Read more on the Lytro Blog HERE