Maybe the coolest thing I've seen in years.

[Ford 1st MRB]

Okay so if you are aware of how cameras work, or even if you aren't here is a small explanation.

In layman's terms, the lens opens up, allowing light to come through and be "burned" onto either film or a digital memory card, thus creating the picture you see later. This technology has pretty much stayed unchanged for the past 400 years. You get the image you take, and have been "stuck" to how it turned out with limited abilities to edit it later.

Until now.

http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery

This new technology has a completely new take on what we know about cameras. It takes pictures with a light field sensor, capturing all of the light it sees, allowing infinite re-focusing of the picture later on.

Just go through the gallery and click on different places in the pictures.

No that isn't a computer program changing the focus, it is actual pictures captured with this new technology.

Pretty damn awesome if you ask me.

[I have no arms BAR]

That is freakin awesome. Are there supposed to be special cameras to do this?

[Ford 1st MRB]

Yes, that company Lytro is the one who developed the camera. They are currently taking reservations for people interested in purchasing them, but I would imagine it is rather expensive.

Edited June 29, 2011 by Ford 1st MRB

[I have no arms BAR]

Yeah but give it a few years, this'll be affordable. Very cool.

[Gooderham 1st MRB]

Yeah but give it a few years, this'll be affordable. Very cool.

wOW.

[S. Richards]

Finally, those distant voyeur shots will be able to satisfy my needs before night-night.

Edited July 3, 2011 by S. Richards 1st MRB

[Frantz]

Thats freakin sweet