I've just checked out the review on the new Lytro camera. Well, just as I have expected...nice idea, poor realization. Of course I'd love to have a camera where you can change the DOF and point of focus everytime you look at the photo, but apart from this function you get:
1) Low resolution - 1080x1080, you must be kidding!
2) Bad image quality (high noise levels, low shutter speed, noticeable chromatic abberations)
3) Lack of controls and settings
4) The design is surely attractive but not handy
5) Being bound to it's own software
6) Very petty 128x128 display
7) And the most annoying - you can take only SQUARE photos! 2:3 ration didn't come from nowhere, you know.
So what seemed like a great innovation turned out to be very raw product which (in my opinion) shouldn't be offered to customers just yet. For 400$ you get an average cell-phone quality camera that can, however, do some magic tricks. Don't know about you, but all I want from my photos in terms of focus is to simply have the focus on the right object. I don't want to play around with it to show the background instead of the foreground. If I blur the background then there's nothing worth seeing there, huh. So to me this would be useful only as a tool to correct slight focus mistakes.
Btw, I definitely loved the official preview images, but I doubt they were taken with an actual Lytro camera. Looks more like a compilation of differently focused shots taken with DSLR.
I hope this technology will develop with time and they'll have something more adequate to sell to photographers as well, and not just to people who use their cellphone cameras and don't ask for an outstanding quality.
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