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Lytro Light Field 8GB Camera $117 (RRP $499) Shipped @ COTD (Bonus Belkin AUX Cable)

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Lytro Light Field 8GB Camera $117 (RRP $499) Shipped @ COTD (Bonus Belkin AUX Cable)
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easternculture on 18/09/2014 - 12:05 catchoftheday.com.au (565 clicks)
Last edited 27/09/2014 - 08:45 by 1 other user

Its back again .

All the above come with a Bonus Belkin Coiled 90cm Stereo AUX Audio Cable
- FREE Shipping from this event for orders > $40 Top Deals From The Past 30 Days

Features:
First generation Lytro camera (note:the second generation lytro camera will cost $1599USD http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/lytro-illum/)

  • Colour: Electric blue
  • 8GB/16GB capacity - fit up to 350 or 700 photos
  • Harness the light field via 11 Megaray light field sensor
  • Capture the colour, intensity and direction of light in any image
  • Modify the exposure, colour, depth, tilt & perspective of images
  • 8x optical zoom lens (35mm - 280mm) with constant f/2 aperture
  • Innovative, compact design
  • See the story of your photos come to life
  • 1.5” LCD touchscreen for camera controls
  • Easily post to social networking sites
  • Includes: LYTRO Magnetic Lens Cap, Lens cleaning cloth, wrist strap, USB cable for data transfer and charging and quick start guide
  • Dimensions (mm, approx): 41 x 41 x 112
  • Weight: 214g
  • 12 Month Manufacturer Warranty - refer to 'Warranty' tab for details.
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  • abc on 18/09/2014 - 12:39
    +2

    The problem with this camera is that you need to do post processing via their proprietary software to even import your photos to PC.

    • 0 0 0 on 18/09/2014 - 13:18
      +1

      yep and then have the risk of not being able to view them in 5yrs time

  • nadan on 18/09/2014 - 12:49
    +1

    At this price, it could be used a dashcam in the car?

    • damion on 18/09/2014 - 13:13
      +1

      Not sure if you're serious or not, but I think the effective resolution would probably make it useless for any numberplate identification.

    • mr kindface on 18/09/2014 - 13:46
      +1

      At this price, you could get 3 dashcams

  • drazenm on 18/09/2014 - 13:09
    +1

    RRP $449???

    Like 200 years ago LOL!

    • damion on 18/09/2014 - 13:12

      There should be an ARRP - Adjusted Recommended Retail Price value, that factors in age and technology change.

  • douglasb on 18/09/2014 - 13:11

    Very tempted, but then I went to dpreview.com and checked out reviews. Folks don't seem terribly enamoured of this camera. Still, $110 (it's $109.95, not $109) is a nice cheap price, even if the device is a bit of a gimmick. I tried Sydney postcodes on the COTD page and was offered free shipping. Thanks, OP.

    • abc on 18/09/2014 - 13:33
      +3

      A nice cheap price for mucking around would be $50. Go ahead, waste your hard earned :P

  • PlasticSpaceman on 18/09/2014 - 13:14

    A very interesting bit of gear (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/lytro and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ9W5TGbanI)… many drawbacks but still a technical marvel. No way would I pay RRP for it then or now, but for $109? Tempting….

    old timer alert:

    [get off my lawn]
    I remember when it cost around $30 to buy, process, and print a roll of film - so this is like the cost of putting three rolls through my camera way back when…. heck, it wasn't that long ago that a 2GB card cost $100 and this has four times that amount of space.
    [/get off my lawn]

    • abc on 18/09/2014 - 13:34
      +9

      Back then we didn't take 100 photos of our lunch! We had 24-36 exposures per film and only took good photos :D

      • natsumezoku on 18/09/2014 - 15:52
        +2

        20 good photos and 4 photos of shit around you because you wanted to finish the roll to send it off for processing.

  • homersyd on 18/09/2014 - 13:19
    -2

    just get the HTC M8 phone instead, has this function built-in!

    • 2be8 on 18/09/2014 - 14:01
      +4

      No, the HTC fakes it. It takes a depth-map while taking the photo, and then uses it to apply a blur filter to the (crystal clear) photograph that the phone took.
      In contrast, the Lytro 'image' includes information about the angle of entry of the light and by selecting light based on angle it can 'refocus' the image. There is a decent article about how the Lytro works on HowStuffWorks.
      The effect can be very similar, or the same, but the underlying technology is different.

      It is a pretty awesome tech, but only works well in quite good light.

      (If it does drop to $50 I'll certainly wind up with one)

  • feral on 18/09/2014 - 13:22
    +5

    I have one, bought from COTD recently.

    Its a fun gadget, You can only adjust the focus for a couple of meters. Its useful for the purpose I bought it for; close up product photography like to use for thumbnails with a nice background blur effect on rollover… Resolution is pretty bad, 1024x1024, it takes square photos. There is 3rd party software available that lets you into the file format and do some fun things with the images, like focus everything, get a slightly larger resolution image. You can hook it up to an ipad over adhoc wifi but the desktop app has more functionality. Its a toy, but a fun one..

  • PlasticSpaceman on 18/09/2014 - 13:24
    +7

    Ordered. Damn you, OP. Yet more useless rubbish to put next to my ever increasing Jenga tower of eneloops. ;-)

    • PlasticSpaceman on 25/09/2014 - 14:16

      Well, have it now and have played with it a little. As expected the actual resolution is pretty ordinary… think webcam….. but that's not the point with it. As for the unit itself, well it has obviously been in storage for a while so the battery was totally dead - needed to put on charge for a while then do a hard reset by holding the power button down for 45 seconds or so….. and there was some dust on the front lens, but easily cleaned with the lenspen. It was then just a matter of installing the software, waiting until it was fully charged, and then updating the firmware. Overall pretty happy with my new toy! ;-)

  • StewBalls on 18/09/2014 - 13:24

    When I first saw these I got excited, was incorrectly thinking that they might have been using femto-photography as per: http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_o…

    …oh well, cool gadget for what they are though! ;)

  • cyrax83 on 18/09/2014 - 13:30
    +2

    At $110, nah. $50 - sure.

    • abc on 18/09/2014 - 13:35
      +1

      Just wait. This thing isn't selling and the V2 is out.

  • UglyPanda on 18/09/2014 - 14:08
    +1

    damn! bought it this morning from them using that last post' referral and paid about 10$ more.
    Their site said the deal would end in an hour.
    Now they have a better deal.

    • mr kindface on 18/09/2014 - 18:31

      Be quick! Buy now before we lower the price!

  • [Deactivated] on 18/09/2014 - 17:29
    +2

    Worth $30 at most.

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