Lytro‘s first two forays into the consumer market came with much hype for Lytro’s light-field camera technology, but then crashed to earth with a bang due to costs and bugs. So now the new Lytro is aiming for the even greater heights, in what will be a filmmakers dream.
With the use of new special sensors in the new camera, filmmakers can now refocus the same after it is captured. The sensors calculate the direction in which light rays from an object is traveling, and along with inbuilt computational algorithms, with all the user to adjust the depth of field, much like how you would do it in your camera’s viewfinder before taking the shots.
And it doesn’t stop there. The camera lets you adjust practically everything after the fact, including some things that are simply impossible with any other camera, such as adjusting frame rates and shutter speeds after the shot has been taken.
As the camera recognizes every object with three-dimensional depth, filmmakers do not need to use green screens to add backgrounds in post-production anymore. Objects taken with the camera can be extracted, and others added in seamlessly.
The camera’s sensor has 755 “RAW megapixels” for capturing content, although the camera’s output isn’t that ridiculously high-res. That’s simply the number of photosites needed to capture light-field content; it will render movies for 4K and 2K playback with frame rates of up to 300fps. The sensor is a custom light field format sensor that’s about a foot and a half wide. It’s a brand-new sensor designed for this camera, but the camera’s microlens technology is based upon the same tech used in previous Lytro cameras.
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