Light Field Cameras

Toshiba Is Developing Lytro-Style Camera Sensor For Mobile Devices ⁰

by Val Galin • Cameras, Concept Product • Tags: Light Field Cameras, Lytro, Toshiba

Japanese company Toshiba is reportedly building a new camera sensor for smartphones and tablets that will feature the unique capability of the Lytro camera, which is changing the focus area within a photo. However, Toshiba’s camera is going to be small enough to fit the current mobile devices. On top of the sensor are 500,000 [...]

Smartphone Manufacturers Set Sights on Lytro’s Lightfield Technology ⁰

by D.L. Cade • Concept Product, Phoneotography • Tags: Light Field Cameras, Light Field Phone Cameras, Lytro

Camera innovation often moves in incremental steps. Advancements in the technology inside a DSLR, while it does improve year to year, more often than not does so inch by inch (or centimeter by centimeter for you European types). But once in a while (often a long while) someone re-thinks, re-invents and re-creates the camera all together – [...]