The Camera of the Future #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is the

Lytro loom no it is one of the coolest

pieces of tech to come out in quite a

while except for the fact that no one

actually bought it so when this came out

a couple years ago it cost a whopping

$1,500

over today you can pick them up for

about two or three hundred what makes

Lytro special is it is a completely

different way of taking a photo so

instead of a traditional camera which

captures a flat 2d image Lytro actually

captures the light rays which sounds a

little goofy but it allows you to do is

change the focus the depth of field even

the perspective after you take the shot

and here is the camera itself which is

actually bigger than I thought there's

almost nothing on here there's a big

touchscreen around back a couple of

buttons and that's pretty much it it

feels like some like concept of a camera

versus an actual normal DSLR to put

things in perspective this is what the

Illuma like compared to a more

traditional camera at the sony a6300 as

you can see well this is not exactly the

smallest camera in the world it

absolutely dwarfs it especially with

this huge lens before we get started

let's see what we actually need to get

this thing up and running is actually a

kind of a cool unboxing experience

there's a lot here we've got a cleaning

cloth and it looks like a lens hood as

well I can't get over the fact that this

just doesn't look like any other camera

it's vaguely sort of mirrorless like but

with that huge screen around back and

essentially no buttons it's a super

unique look so we do have an

articulating display and since we have

no buttons thankfully it is a

touchscreen right so if I want can I

focus on the camera okay so we took a

quick test shot and first guys it looks

nice but if I want I can switch focus to

Ken Joe over to curvy that's actually

really cool

so the refocusing thing is definitely

nothing new so a lot of smart phones

have been able to do a sort of

rudimentary version of this by either

using multiple cameras or taking a lot

of stills and kind of merging them

together with this you're actually

getting full control of what it looks

like and at first glance it's not bad

what's interesting about this is that

inside it's actually kind of like a

smart phone so pound this guy is

actually a Snapdragon 801 processor now

mind you in 2014 that was little bit

more impressive than it is today but

that's still a lot of power for a camera

so when I start shooting one of the

things I noticed is that while it's nice

to have a big 4-inch display the viewing

are not great especially since it's

articulating when I kind of lower it

like I can't say anything unless I get

right in the sweet spot

that's nice although there looks like

some weird artifacting so even though

this doesn't focus like a traditional

camera you still can use the autofocus

button on the back as well as tapping to

get that initial focus so even though

this gives you a lot more flexibility

than a traditional camera you do at

least have to get it in the rough

ballpark as far as focus goes I feel

like when I'm shooting from lower angles

everything looks a little bit more

impressive there's a lot more kind of

depth to work with so handling wise it's

not bad it might not be the most

ergonomic camera in the world however

the weight does not run it into plants I

say oh it is it's almost like you're

trying to walk backwards with a camera

or something so what might not be the

most ergonomic camera in the world that

large grip really does help I'm not so

sure how durable this is going to be

it's all very very soft touch plastics

and rubber and there's definitely a bit

of metal here but it seems reasonable

maybe not $59 reasonable but definitely

$200 reasonable I gotta say this dynamic

range is awful like that's the sky is

blown out and your face is completely

gone I get that this is more of a pro

camera and that's cool it's nice to be

able to have some of the features where

you know you can actually refocus and

stuff but image quality doesn't really

seem to be on par with something like

what you could get out of a DSLR the

more I play with this the more I feel

like this will be a lot better suited

for video so it's actually not totally

crazy light doe does have a video camera

that they are working on but it's gonna

be a lot more high-end than something

like this Hoover the idea being able to

shoot video and be able to refocus after

the shot is really interesting once

you're done shooting you need to take

your photos into the light show app for

Windows or Mac so in like a traditional

camera that shoots normal JPEGs here all

of your photos have to be processed

first my initial instinct is oh god

everything's out of focus however I may

need to do is click on Ken's face and it

looks actually pretty decent so this is

actually a really good example of how

you get that little bit of depth it's a

cool effect I don't really think it's

going to make a huge difference in how

you would actually save your final image

but so you get things something very

slightly wrong it's easy enough to just

click and adjust it to kind of pull some

depth out so just like if you shot Raw

on a normal camera you can change things

like the white balance the exposure

saturation what I want to see is how

some of this virtual camera stuff works

so you can see here we can almost kind

of digitally adjust the

aperture that actually looks kind of

cool though maybe not quite so extreme

so once you I should get these processed

you're looking at a picture that's

around five megapixels but looking at it

it's a little soft so this is shot is a

2500 and honestly it's not really usable

I mean you can't see some of this cool

focus effect and it's not perfect but it

actually does look pretty cool the thing

I can't get away from is that the image

quality just isn't that great now don't

get me wrong this is an incredible piece

of technology and for a couple hundred

dollars there's definitely a lot worse

options out there however at the end of

the day the pictures are interesting it

does a lot of very cool stuff but the

tech just doesn't feel fully baked to me

so what do you guys think about Lytro in

the Illume devil be sure to let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you in the next one