Capture: Mama Don't Take My Lytro Camera Away
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Lilith __, in reply to
a spider’s micro-engineered handiwork against that of the builders of the Napier-Gisborne railway line.
Brilliant juxtaposition Chris!
Also, holy crap, that's a gradient...
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JacksonP, in reply to
Lytro definitely intriguing for the close-up stuff in context, but the hand-held conventional camera’s depth of field may be adequate sometimes
Or even just an iPhone.
Amazing capture Chris.
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ChrisW, in reply to
holy crap, that's a gradient...
Somewhat undulating on the way down, but it's a bugger getting up the other side!
This the biggest of three washouts on the Gisborne-Napier railway ... -
And here's the third biggest one. The line is an appreciable tourism asset, more importantly for freight in the post-peak-oil world of the rapidly approaching future. But is Government thinking approaching that future at the same pace? A decision on the line should be made this month.
Question is, which way are those points pointing for/by KiwiRail? Full steam ahead, or sidelined? -
Joe Wylie, in reply to
Amazing pics of an amazing phenomenon.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
phenomenon.
Doo Doo bee doo doo....
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
holy crap, that’s a gradient…
Is that Rainbows End?.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Somewhat undulating on the way down, but it's a bugger getting up the other side!
This the biggest of three washouts on the Gisborne-Napier railway ...Speaking of gradients... Meanwhile, back in town, I got to test out the camera on my new smartphone for the first time. It's a wide angle shot, so it gives an indication of how close I was following.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
spider’s micro-engineered handiwork against that of the builders of the Napier-Gisborne railway line
Great pictures……
Maybe railway could be fixed with a combination of these two……
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I see there is actually a focus shifting iOS app now, mimicking the Lytro. Ideally your foreground object should be three to five inches away, and you need to keep the iDevice still while it takes multiple pictures at different focuses. I can see camera manufactures add this implementation in the near future.
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Thanks David. To save me the seconds it would take to find it, do you know what it’s called?
I keep trying to extract shots I’d want to share out of the Lytro itself, and the new focus shift and stacking simulation shows promise, but I just can’t get inspired. Maybe I should share it around, or have a Lytro day, and get others to try it out. Love the concept of it. Just in the form it’s in, after the initial excitement, my enthusiasm waned rapidly.
Here’s one of the originals with the perspective shift applied retrospectively. If you click and drag, the depth of field changes. Clever, but again I’m lost with how to make the most of it.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Clever, but again I’m lost with how to make the most of it.
I wonder if it's that thing about limitations making the challenge and the creativity?
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The app I spotted was focustwist (iPhone/ iPod only, basically the models that you can set the focus lock on)
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JacksonP, in reply to
The app I spotted was focustwist (iPhone/ iPod only, basically the models that you can set the focus lock on)
Cheers. I had a go. Interesting, but again I'm failing to see the broader appeal or sense of it.
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I must admit, I tend to think- that's technically very, very clever but I don't have an actual use for it
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Sacha, in reply to
have a Lytro day, and get others to try it out
yes
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Just noting that now that people have realised "hey we can manipulate depth of field with computers" we are seeing a range of different applications, including this "lens"
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JacksonP, in reply to
That's kind of what I was waiting for too David. Thanks for the link.
The recent update on the Lytro improved things by allowing you to 'shift focus', bringing everything withing the depth of field into focus. But then you couldn't export the image to file, only screen grab it.
It's like all the way through they have been almost, but not quite. The concept is brilliant. The first consumer application of it from Lytro would have been more at home with Instagram.
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