There are not too many products that come out these days that truly make me catch my breath. Finding new technology is more of a hum-drum hobby than an adventurous search into the unknown. Today, however, I really had a "WOW" kind of moment.
The Lytro camera debuted today and this little stick of a camera, called a light-field camera, produces some astounding results. Try out the demo below by clicking on the person in the background and then clicking on the bike tire in the foreground. Amazing!
How does it work? Well, that can be a little complicated as this involves some physics that are foreign to your own experience with light. First off, the camera is not just collecting light like a normal camera. Instead, a light-field camera is capable of recording, in addition to color and intensity, the vector direction of the rays of light. Knowing how all of the light made its way to your camera allows for a computer to manage focus using software. A normal camera uses hardware to focus in on one direction of light. The light-field camera captures all the possible focusing configurations. With this ability you can focus on any part of an image long after it was taken. In addition, you can then refocus the image as many times as you like.
Also, as you can see above, these images can be embedded on any website, even your Facebook wall.
More photo fun: https://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/
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