14 DAY TRIAL // Last month, Lytro introduced its newest camera called the Illum, which is a DSRL-style shooter that comes with the nifty ability of refocusing the shot after it has been taken.
Anyway, this week the company launched an 11-minute documentary called “Emotions in a Different Light” which has been made available for the wide public online.
As you might have guessed, this little documentary represents the company’s way of showing off the capabilities of the new Lytro Illum camera.
Basically, the video takes you on a journey alongside a bunch of photographers who will walk you through what the Illum can do.
The Lytro camera allows users to manually re-adjust the focus of images after the capture has been snapped; therefore, you will not be shooting a single capture, but a continuous experience instead.
The short documentary follows five photographers working with the Lytro Illum and showing you the results that can be achieved with the product.
- Anna Webber, commercial music and entertainment portraits - Roman Leo, fashion and portraits - Lori Nix, dioramas - Kyle Thompson, surreal conceptual - Brian Nervins, actions and sports
The Illum camera has been launched with an 8X (30-250mm) zoom lens and capable of offering a constant f/2.0 aperture and 1/4000 shutter.
As far as specifications go, there’s a 4-inch backside touchscreen display, a quad-core Snapdragon 400 CPU and a forked Android version as the user interface plastered on top.
Lytro claims the camera is capable of capturing 40 million light rays, but even if this sounds impressive, you should know it translates only into a 5MP equivalent. Nevertheless, compared to the first camera Lytro put out, this is a noticeable improvement.
The camera arrives with light field technology that enables the camera to capture not only the color and intensity of light but also to preserve the direction coordinates.
This way the camera can refocus the image after the deed has been done and also create the so-called parallax effect, where the perspective can be shifted slightly, giving you the impression you’re working with a 3D camera.
Looking at the Illum, there’s no way you won’t notice the different design. The camera has an angled touchscreen and if you’re wondering what this is all about, Lytro explains they have created the camera in this manner in order to make it easier for photographers to shoot pictures that prompt them to hold the camera up to their face directly.
Anyway, check out the short documentary, to get an idea of what the Illum can do in real life.
