lytro camera

• Question:-What exactly is a "Lytro" camera and why is all the info about it .........................?
  So secretive ? How much will it cost ? Who sells it ?
  
  Answer:-It looks so incredibly cool. I really want one.
  
  Basically, when you take a picture with low aperture, only part of the picture is in focus. (in focus = "not blurry" in average-people-terms) Unfortunately, you usually have to use low aperture if you're not in super-bright lighting conditions. So let's say you're taking a picture of your daughter. You focus it so your daughter is clear, and the background is blurry. Now, just as you click the shutter, your nephew does this incredible skateboard flip in the background! Too bad you can't see his face, because it's out of focus. Darnit. But, then Lytro comes in. (cue superhero music) AFTER you take the picture, you can change it so your nephew is in focus!! This may not sound so cool to the normal person out there, but to us photography nerds, this is life-changing. (well, I might be a REALLY big photography nerd.)
  
  So often I take a picture and then, looking back on it, I think, "darn, I wish I had that part in focus instead." Now, with Lytro, you can.
  
  I don't believe it's for sale yet, but when it is, it'll probably be crazy expensive. This is a huge leap in photography, which is why it's being kept mysterious.
• Question:-which is better in image quality DSLR or LYTRO?
  Hi... I have seen that DSLR camera pics are very good in quality giving realistic pictures.. what more can a lytro camera bring into the photo ??
  
  Answer:-Well as the Lytro is not in production yet then the answer is pretty obvious.
• Question:-How much do you think this new " living picture camera " will change photography significantly ?
  http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/168515/20110623/lytro-camera-no-focus-living-pictures-light-fields.htm
  
  http://www.pcworld.com/article/230966/5_coolest_lytro_light_field_camera_features.html
  
  
  Some photo students are freaking out saying that photographers apparetnly won't be needed no more since you can make stuff in focus and make the light right and stuff like that.
  
  Answer:-NO.
  It will just mean that hopefully we won't be seeing so much out of focus crap on the "what is my photogrpahy like" questions.
  
  It will not help with composition, it will not help with wb, it will not help with subject matter or any number of other things which go towards making a good photograph
  
  
  Photography is more than just getting the subject in focus.
• Question:-Pro-Photogs: What do you think of Lytro?
  Someone brought it up with me today, and I've never heard of it.
  However, it seems that this technology could revolutionize the photography world and make my cameras and equipment sadly obsolete very quickly. That's the price of technology though..
  What do you think? Have you heard of it?
  
  Answer:-Why will it make your cameras and equipment obsolete??
  
  There is a damn site more to photography than focus.
  
  It will be great for happy snappers who seem incapable of focusing a camera (even with autofocus) it will not make everything else obsolete though.