This plays directly into one of the cooler parts of light field, which is this ability to use the additional data that we capture to get breakthrough hardware performances. Rosenthal: We designed it in-house and worked with a Japanese partner to build it. How are you able to create something like this? Reply DeleteДPReview:This is a very versatile lens - a bright, constant aperture, lots of zoom, and 13 elements, which is relatively few for a design like this. Lytro should by all means continue to push its technology, but this will fail until they dramatically lower their price or drastically review their business model. Except it has a four time lower resolution, an inferior (though relatively okay) body ergonomics, and a better-spec'ed-on-the-paper but yet-to-bet-proven lens. How does Lytro justify the 300$ premium over the Sony? Its exclusive technology? Sure, why not. Which already is a niche product in itself. The way I see it, it's closest competitor in terms of lens specs, sensor size, body size, target users and price is obviously Sony's DSC-RX10.

I can't believe they came up with such a high price tag. And I'm not even talking about the workflow. There definitely is potential to this tech, but not with these specs and at this price. Though the comparison ends here: the now Sigma sensor actually delivers (at least at low ISO). Both use big numbers in order to avoid talking about actual megapixels. I feel there's a parallel to draw with the Foveon sensor, in terms of marketing.

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