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I'd love to have that freedom... combined with everything else that I've come to expect from a DSLR. Lytro's cameras are nice novelty gadgets but it's not clear
by ak217 14y ago
I'd love to have that freedom... combined with everything else that I've come to expect from a DSLR. Lytro's cameras are nice novelty gadgets but it's not clear to me if they're trying to move in the direction of working with a sensor/DSLR maker to enable this. I think that's what they should focus on...
- alanctgardner2 14y agoI gave this some thought below, but unfortunately fitting a new, more expensive sensor is probably not going to happen soon. The current 1.8 megapixel is a cheap commodity sensor, and it's still probably costing them buckets to have them fabbed with their custom microlenses. Something like a Kodak 8MP sensor would probably be 20x as expensive, and talking them into making you a custom SKU would be much harder. Edit: after a bit of digging, it looks like they make the micro lens array themselves and buy the sensors without one. This obviously makes acquisition easier, but as the pixel pitch decreases ( by an order of magnitude, to compete with a modern SLR ) the complexities of building and attaching that array increase significantly.