The unique Lytro Illum 40 Megapixel Light Field camera with built-in 30-250mm f/2.0(!!!) lens got a massive price drop. It now sells for $399 only at Amazon US (Click here).
If you prefer a “Classic” camera deal than watch out for this one: $500 off on the [shoplink 300958 ebay]Sony A7rII sold on eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. It’s grey improted but comes with 1 year US seller warranty.
5 Responses
$399 for an exported 4mpx jpg file…no thanks.
Good science and technology in the body of a lousy product just dont make it. Surprised those guys don’t have the taste for a (semi)-right product.
Buying one at this price. Going to have fun playing with the light field tech.
We reviewed one of these… it really doesn’t work. You can craft example photos that will look OK, but if you try to actually use it in the real world, you’ll find very inconsistent results from the depth mapping, and fixing it in post is a huge PITA. Also, it’s incredibly unsharp under any circumstances… like, 1990s digital camera unsharp. It’s really not even a fun toy; it crashes on the regular and needs reboots. The software is completely unfun to use. You can only really share pictures on their website.
If it were free, I still wouldn’t waste the time on it.
I appreciate the concept and I’m glad some people looked into this, because else we’d never get anywhere. But yeah, sometimes you don’t need to do much more other than just coming up with the idea and exploring the practical possibilities with a prototype. But hopefully someday in the future it helps actually useful cameras to be more useful.