Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
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Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#2I love this. I collect interesting obsolete hardware; I bought a Light L16 recently for cheap but it can no longer update itself, unfortunately. Lytro is on my list as well.
The lytro itself is a lightfield / plenoptic camera. It captures the angle of light coming into the camera as well, which lets you calculate focus AFTER the photo has been taken. Focus is, of course, itself just another computation. http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#3Oh sweet. I have an original Lytro. Battery is dead so it would need a repair.
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#4Ooooh I have an original Lytro and of course it just sits there. I am going to have to try this!
By the way don't miss this video about the failed 755 megapixel 300fps Lytro Cinema camera, a contraption the size of a car with off the charts data storage requirements.
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#5I love this. I collect interesting obsolete hardware; I bought a Light L16 recently for cheap but it can no longer update itself, unfortunately. Lytro is on my list as well. The lytro itself is a lightfield / plenoptic camera. It captures the angle of light coming into the camera as well, which lets you calculate focus AFTER the photo has been taken. Focus is, of course, itself just another computation. http://graphi…
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Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#6Ooooh I have an original Lytro and of course it just sits there. I am going to have to try this! By the way don't miss this video about the failed 755 megapixel 300fps Lytro Cinema camera, a contraption the size of a car with off the charts data storage requirements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfjYecJHMRU
If the human retinal density was equal to the foveal density across the whole eye, our optic nerves would be half a foot across.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
In short: pay attention or get left behind.
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#7Shame lytro never made a security video camera variant. Seems like the ideal application, ensuring that anything from vehicle plates in the background to faces in the foreground can be brought into focus.
What sort of fps is the API capable of producing jpegs? It sounds like the larger illum can manage 3 fps natively, but couldn't find specs on the original lytro.
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#8I must admit, I have a really soft spot for well-done reverse engineering write-ups like this. Show me logic board pictures, console commands, code and who-knows-what, and I'm happy as a squirrel.
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#9Ooooh I have an original Lytro and of course it just sits there. I am going to have to try this! By the way don't miss this video about the failed 755 megapixel 300fps Lytro Cinema camera, a contraption the size of a car with off the charts data storage requirements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfjYecJHMRU
If the human retinal density was equal to the foveal density across the whole eye, our optic nerves would be half a foot across. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle. In short: pay attention or get left behind.
The whole segment never fails to crack me up on a bad day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OplyHCIBmfE
Re: Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
#10I love this. I collect interesting obsolete hardware; I bought a Light L16 recently for cheap but it can no longer update itself, unfortunately. Lytro is on my list as well. The lytro itself is a lightfield / plenoptic camera. It captures the angle of light coming into the camera as well, which lets you calculate focus AFTER the photo has been taken. Focus is, of course, itself just another computation. http://graphi…
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> Grandparents had a Heathkit TV like this with an ultrasonic remote that could also be controlled by jingling keys
I wished my Sony A7 had such a nice and elegant shortcut for remote video recording. Instead it has a crappy little remote control that eats batteries like candy and that seems to un-pair spontaneously in mid recording session and other such niceties.