Anyone heard about the Lytro camera?

[net]

The Lytro camera/hands on:

[Lunchbox]

Friends been spreading the info on Facebook and from Cnet. It certainly a cool gadget and an affordable price. But I might wait for second generation =)

[1]

Difficult to find image size. They call it "HD", and by my calculations an image is ~20MB, but what exactly is the picture's pixel size????

[kenkyusha]

I've been wondering the same thing and similarly, haven't seen specs.

[Janke]

Considering the fact that the camera has to capture maybe 20 "focus levels" per pixel, I'd guess the actual 2-dimensional resolution can't be much higher than 1 or 2 megapixels or so?

[Gillvane]

Considering the fact that the camera has to capture maybe 20 "focus levels" per pixel, I'd guess the actual 2-dimensional resolution can't be much higher than 1 or 2 megapixels or so?

I believe this is correct. Over at Reduser someone posted a topic about the lytro and Jim Jannard said Red is working on a High Rez version and they have a prototype.

[Lunchbox]

CNET has this reported. The "lifeless" version of the image would be "1,080x1,080-pixel-resolution JPEG (that's roughly 1.2 megapixels)"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...y/?tag=nl.e725

If i'm shooting a 1.2 megapixels camera, I prolly won't care too much if the shots are out of focus =)

[Janke]

That's what I suspected. But: Wait a year or two or three, and it may be up to 10 Mpixels...

[Dr. Benway]

Jim Jannard said Red is working on a High Rez version and they have a prototype.

I'll await the update updates with bated breath.

[cgbier]

There's some presentation on the future in visual technology... bit scary