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I just love taking pictures.
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Pictures
Taking
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The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.
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Merging
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There's something about light field photography that's just magical.
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Magical
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Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.
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Catching
Fleeting
Difficult Thing
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It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
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Candid
Difficult
Moving
Portraits
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I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.
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Academic
Company
Reluctant
Background
Due
Primarily
Start
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Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.
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Execution
Apple
Detail
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With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
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Imaging
Pipeline
Supply Chain
Chain
Entire
Rethink
Supply
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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Opportunity
Technology
Available
Huge
Light
Photography
Field
Huge Opportunity
In The Past
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Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.
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Light
Mark
Path
Together
Bench
Lab
Onto
Optical
Putting
Span
Spent
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Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking.
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Digital
New Possibilities
Opens
Possibilities
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I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
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Enjoyed
Photographer
Serious
University
Became
Pictures
Taking
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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Passion
Photography
Program
Stanford
Study
University
Began
Field
Mine
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We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.
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Amazing
Australia
Available
Creative
Interactive
Looking Forward
Owners
Seen
Camera
Forward
Pictures
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When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.
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Adjusting
Relative
Different Parts
Lens
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The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
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Cameras
Conventional
Myth
Online
Percent
Throwing
Wrong Direction
Picture
Direction
Total
Goes
Taking
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For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.
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Conventional
Depth
Rays
Participate
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I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.
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Active
Cameras
Capture
Fleeting
Frustrated
Limitations
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On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.
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Climbing
Action Pictures
Correctly
Inherently
Portrait
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The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
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Effects
Frozen
Special Effects
Stanford
Applications
Array
Matrix
Motion
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Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
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Software
Camera
Focus End Of The Day Day
Chasm
Companies
End Of The Day
Producer
Photos
Yes
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There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.
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Cameras
Conventional
Human Experience
New Ways
Beyond
Biological
Eyes
Magical
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Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.
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Technology
Facility
First Time
Huge
Needs
Research
Camera
Introduce
Room
Product
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I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.
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Medical
Computation
Fascination
Imaging
Always Me See
Advance
Eventually
Fundamentally
Graphics
Led
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Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.
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Cameras
Capture
Digital
Rays
Scene
Picture
Aspects
Direction
Field
Unlike
Manipulated
Regular
Traveling
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The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
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Too Late
Focusing
Searching
Struck
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I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.
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Fixed
Malaysia
Family Home Myself
Lens
Trip
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If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.
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Information
Software
Camera
Photo
Field
Lens
Provides
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