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A former NFL 17 Coins Stanford PhD

Submitted by inpxmaixna on Sun, 10/23/2016 - 18:01

A former NFL 17 Coins Stanford PhD student is promising a camera that "willforever change how everyone takes and experiencespictures".

The Lytro camera is unique inallowing the photographer to focus after they have taken theirimage, change from 2D to 3D views and shift the perspective of thescene. Hit thislink, to experiment yourself with some images.

It was designed around a concept called Light Field Capture.The Lytro team explains this as "the amount of light traveling inevery direction through every point in space -- or all the lightrays in a scene". Conventional cameras take the light rayinformation and collate it into "a single amount of light", whichthen hits the film or sensor.

The Lytro camera keeps all of the information as its sensor cancapture "the colour, intensity and vector direction of the rays oflight". In-camera processing ensures that this information isaccessible to the photographer after capture. The designers claimthat "substituting powerful software for many of the internal partsof regular cameras" also allows quicker capture and betterperformance in low light conditions."

Ren Ng designed the camera after completing a thesis at StanfordUniversity on Light Field Capture. He says in his blog: "I loved photographythen as I do now, but I was frustrated and puzzled by the apparentlimitations of cameras. For example, I remember trying to takephotos of Mei-Ahn, the five-year-old daughter of a close friend,but because she was so full of life, it was nearly impossible tocapture the fleeting moments of her smile or perfectly focus thelight in her eyes." Eight years later and Lytro is now a 44-manteam, which is hoping to bring the camera to the public this year.There is, however, no word on pricing.

For those who want more light shed onto the technology behindthis launch, a video isto be broadcast today June 22 at 3pm GMT or 8am PST.