Author: markus

RIM presents “Time Travel” Camera that records an entire timeline 0

RIM presents “Time Travel” Camera that records an entire timeline

Research in Motion (RIM) recently presented a new camera innovation that is yet another blow to purist photography, but all the more useful and practical: Everybody who has done group photos knows that capturing...

LightField Picture of the Week: Blue Eye 0

LightField Picture of the Week: Blue Eye

This week we’d like you to take a closer look – much closer: A mesmerizingly blue eye of an anonymous beholder looked right into the very lense of the Lytro at asterisk, San Francisco....

Lytro is hiring a WiFi-Engineer – wireless Living Picture transfer in the works? 0

Lytro is hiring a WiFi-Engineer – wireless Living Picture transfer in the works?

As we reported earlier, the Lytro LightField camera already contains a wireless chip that is capable of and . However, Lytro has neither activated the camera’s hidden wireless feature, nor expressed any concrete plans...

Raytrix: New LightField Camera with Quarter of Sensor Resolution 0

Raytrix: New LightField Camera with Quarter of Sensor Resolution

Up until recently, microlense arrays were usually constructed as homogeneous arrays, meaning that every microlense within the array was identical to the others. That means that every microlense results – more or less –...

LightField Picture of the Week: Optical Illusion 0

LightField Picture of the Week: Optical Illusion

This week’s POTW was taken by Lytro user aleks: It shows a famous optical illusion created by Aude Oliva, an associate professor of cognitive science at MIT. http://pictures.lytro.com/aleks/pictures/137156 When the hybrid picture titled “Marilyn...

Taking Lytro pictures through a microscope – first attempt 1

Taking Lytro pictures through a microscope – first attempt

There is no doubt that the new possibilities of LightField photography (including software refocus, and 3D extrapolation) will come in handy in light microscopy. One question we’ve been asking us ever since Lytro introduced...