Lightfield imaging – development kit from Lytro
Posted in Hardware
Lytro is releasing a development kit for their light field camera. That’s nice, but it pretty expensive. And we’ve been able to buy light field cameras for technical uses for years.
What’s special about Lytro is that they made a consumer camera. Labrigger bought one of the first ones when they came out. So one might have expected their dev kit to be directed at hobbyists at least, but it’s $20k (pdf).
20K is steep. I was hoping they would have just gave a file descriptor for the raw data so one could use http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/LFDisplay/ or just write their own code to process. Clearly not aimed at individual labs…
Darcy