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Lytro Light Field Camera
7.0
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Criteria Comments Rating
  • Image quality Extremely low resolution, high grain and poor low light performance by today's standards. poor
  • Video quality No comments —
  • Battery life No comments good
  • Design and form factor Beautiful, but not terribly functional. Difficult to shoot any interesting angles due to form factor and screen placement. poor
  • Durability No comments good
  • Speed (start-up time, lag) No comments good
  • Ease of use One button, no focusing, no fiddling. What could be easier. However, requiring me to connect to a computer to "process" is a fail. good
Detailed review
It's a great technology, that holds tremendous promise. However, it's not a very practical tool, and as a toy I lost interest very quickly. Composing images was difficult because of the form factor and small screen, and the image quality dissapointed consistently. Even so, I can see how this light field photography represents the future and will be pretty killer once refined, and integrated into smartphones and more conventional tried-and-true form factors.

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LazarX

LazarX

One of the last things that Steve Jobs did before he died was to have a pretty extended interview with the creator of this technology. Who knows? This might be on Apple's shopping list of companies to buy.
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