On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk < [email protected]> wrote:
> This product [1] has been in the news for a while now. How is it? Is it > the next best thing to sliced bread as they claim it is? Has anyone tried > it out? > Meh. As Lytro is today, it is a niche product like 3D photography or IR photography. I don't see it catching on with Joe Pointandshoot or Jane D'Slr. I can see a handful of hipsters buying it, but what after that? It could be argued that Lytro is useful for photographers by allowing them to adjust the plane of focus ex post facto. But any decent photographer will tell you that a narrow plane of focus - however well you can push it forward or backward - is not always desired. None of the demos of Lytro that I have seen allow me to change my aperture from f/2 to f/22 in post editing. And requiring a special viewer to view the output of Lytro is a no go. Though I suspect they can easily modify (if they have not already done so) their editing/viewing software to export to JPG any particular version that is being viewed. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
