Blurry pictures could be a thing of the past if Lytro, which makes “light field” cameras that let you change a photo's focus after it's taken, has anything to say about it.In the Herald's new newsroom last week, Lytro director of photography Eric Cheng took one photo of two baseballs using Lytro's camera. Using the company's desktop software, he shifted the focus from the closer to the farther ball, blurring out the first one. Then, he brought the entire photo into focus.“What we're capturing is not a picture, it's a very rich set of data,” Cheng said. “That data is then used to generate an output picture.”
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company makes a $499 version of its camera with 16 gigabytes of storage, which can hold 750 photo files of about 16 megabytes each, and a $399 eight-gigabyte version, good for 350 photos. The cameras are available for preorder now, and will ship in about a month.The company was founded in 2006, based on technology developed at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cheng said the technology could end up in cell phones, but not for a few years.
The simply Digital Cameras Accessories looks like a digital-age spyglass. Cheng said Lytro threw out existing camera design ideas to create something new.The Lytro has only two buttons — a shutter/on button, and a power button. The back end, where the touchscreen viewfinder is wrapped in touch-enabled rubber, controls the 8X zoom.“We made the camera for normal consumers,” Cheng said. “It's designed to be really easy to use, a point-and-shoot camera that captures enough data so you can do very interesting things with the pictures you capture after the fact.”The photos can be used to make a 3D image, and you can also use your mouse to move objects in a photo slightly.
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