{"id":925,"date":"2011-07-02T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bumblejax.com\/content\/news\/game-changing-digital-camera-lytro-technology-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:39:12","slug":"game-changing-digital-camera-lytro-technology-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/game-changing-digital-camera-lytro-technology-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Changing Digital Camera Lytro Technology Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lytrocamera.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 25px 2px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"lytrocamera\" border=\"0\" alt=\"lytrocamera\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lytrocamera_thumb.png\" width=\"273\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a> Out of focus digital images may soon be a thing of the past thanks to game changing technology from Silicon startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lytro.com\">Lytro<\/a>.&#160; The company has found a way to adjust the focus of a digital image after the picture has been taken.&#160; Lytro founder and CEO Ren Ng first explained the concept in a 2006 doctoral dissertation at Stanford University and has been able to take the idea from theory to application with a release of the first consumer camera slated for later this year. <\/p>\n<p>The Lytro camera will capture far more light data from many more angles than a current camera does with a special sensor called a micolens array.&#160; Sophisticated software allows the user to use the data points to manipulate the image in a variety of ways including eliminating any blur.&#160; One big advantage of this technology is that the action shot can be much quicker.&#160; No more waiting for the camera to focus which often times results in the shot being lost.&#160; The camera will also capture enough data for 3-D images which could be viewed with 3-D glasses on a TV or PC.&#160; No word on the pricing of this camera yet which will initially be sold through online retailers such as Amazon as well as the Lytro website.&#160; This looks like exciting technology and I can\u2019t wait for the reviews to come in.&#160; We may have to purchase one for the Bumblejax shop and write up our own review!&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of focus digital images may soon be a thing of the past thanks to game changing technology from Silicon startup Lytro.&#160; The company has found a way to adjust the focus of a digital image after the picture has been taken.&#160; Lytro founder and CEO Ren Ng first explained the concept in a 2006 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-digital-camera","tag-lytro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}