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Toshiba reveals Lytro-style refocus camera module for 2013

Chris Davies — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:09:37 +0000

Toshiba is readying a Lytro-style camera that could allow photos taken on smartphones and tablets to be refocused after they’re captured, with a complex lens assembly creating data-dense adjustable images. The camera, which is expected to be commercialized in late 2013, grabs 500,000 pictures in one take, The Asahi Shimbum reports, thanks to an identical number of

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Lytro camera launches worldwide, adds manual controls

Craig Lloyd — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:01:49 +0000

Lytro‘s innovative light field camera was announced back in June, and it promised the ability to adjust the focus on an image even after it was already taken. That’s quite a concept and one that we’re pretty excited to see in action. Lytro has finally unleashed its camera to all consumers worldwide today. To celebrate

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Lytro goes big: In-store US and international launches in October

Chris Davies — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:33:32 +0000

Innovative camera company Lytro is kicking off international sales from early October, along with broader availability across the US. The so-called light field camera – which allows the focus in the resulting images to be re-set, despite what the photographer was paying specific attention to when originally framing the shot – will hit Target, Best Buy, and Amazon

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Lytro desktop software for Windows up and running

Chris Burns — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:49:23 +0000

Those of you who’ve been early adopters of the camera technology known as Lytro will soon be able to process your photos on your Windows machine with new officially licensed software. This software will work with Windows 7 64 bit ONLY and will be working on Home, Professional, and Ultimate builds. This software will work

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Lytro Review Round-Up

Chris Davies — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:19:41 +0000

Lytro‘s shoot-first, focus-later digital camera caused plenty of head-scratching in the photography world when it was announced last year, and with early reviews landing today it seems that sense of confusion has carried through. The concept of the Lytro is simple, even if the camera’s technology is not; it captures not only light hitting the

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Lytro camera gutted: Bluetooth and Wi-Fi inside

Shane McGlaun — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:40:51 +0000

The FCC has laid its grubby little mitts on the cool Lytro Light Field Camera and torn the device apart to see what’s on the inside. The normal camera hardware was spied along with something that was unexpected. Inside the camera, a Marvell Avastar 88 W8787 SoC was discovered, which adds in a couple capabilities

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Lytro iPhone impossible at the moment, stop asking

Chris Burns — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:05:18 +0000

This week there’s been quite a bit of talk across the airwaves on how and when light field technology (via Lytro) would be integrated into smartphones – I’m here to tell you why its absolutely absurd to think that it’ll be here any time soon. When Steve Jobs met with Lytro CEO Ren Ng, they

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Steve Jobs met with Lytro CEO to discuss iPhone integration

Chris Burns — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:45:33 +0000

For those of you that have no idea what the Lytro standalone camera is, know this: it allows you to take a single photo with the ability to focus on any point in its field of view. Capturing the entire light field, all the light traveling in every direction in every dimension – seemed at

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