Well, this is a small revolution for digital photography! Finally Lytro released a real useful Light Fiel camera, the new Illum! It has a much larger 1 inch sensor (the predecessor had a 1/3 inch sensor) and an astonishing 30-250mm f/2.0 constant aperture lens!
You can get all the info and see image samples at https://www.lytro.com/
This might well become the future of photography don’t you think?
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I do believe that the technology behind the Lightfield camera is the future and it has both great promises for stills and video photography.
However i would wish that they would have taken a more conservative approach when designing the form of the camera, because this camera looks really uncomfortable to handle. Another thing is spec wise; I can’t for the life of me figure out how many megapixels this camera has.
I’ve had a fantasy camera in my mind for a couple of years now…
An organic sensor with a FOVEON or X-Trans layout, on sensor image stabilization and Lightfield micro lenses. Just point and click, then do everything in postproduction 🙂
Great camera indeed, we’ll see if iq is good enough.
Is it possible to make an ilc with this concept?
No this is pointless. And I wouldn’t call it “photography”…
I wouldn’t buy it even at the same price of a conventional camera.
I, on the other hand, welcome such development. To me an ideal camera would be the one that allows to capture intensity, direction, wavelength, polarization, etc. essentially shifting all the manipulation to post process. It does take away something from the romanticism of having to make all the important decisions at one particular moment but at the same time it opens some possibilities. Current digital cameras don’t differ much in concept from the very first cameras ever. But these plenoptic cameras or cameras with sensor arrays combined with software processing offer a true shift in perspective.
40 “megarays” resolution is about 4-5 megapixels. Not enough for me. I´d be ok with 8-10 megapixels for most uses. The lens and overall design are very interesting, but probably image quality is not very good.