Lytro announced the world's first 755 megapixel photo-video camera for film studios using light field technology
Welcome to the pages of the blog iCover . The company Lytro announced the professional movie camera Lytro Cinema for film companies, the main purpose of which is to work with visual effects. The device, externally reminiscent of Garin’s fantastic hyperboloid, uses the technology of capturing a light field and provides 3D video recording of objects in the surrounding reality at 300 frames per second at a resolution of 755 megapixels (40K).
Last week, Lytro announced its intention to leave the compact camera market and focus on the virtual reality segment. At the same time, the past week is connected with another, no less, if not more significant event in the life of the company - the presentation of the unique Lytro Cinema camera for cinema.
The vast majority of digital cameras, claiming the title of advanced, in many ways lagged behind the realities of modern film production with the ubiquitous use of impressive digital special effects. In order to integrate real actors into the digital world, as before, one has to go through the stage of shooting a particular scene against a blue, and more often green screen. The way to solve the problem the company Lytro saw in the possibilities of the light field.
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A complex of micro-lenses is embedded in the light field camera Lytro Cinema between the primary lens and the image sensor. Its task is to refract the light flux passing through the lens and its subsequent separation into thousands of individual light rays fixed by the sensor and then by the integrated processor as a file with the extension ".lpf" (image of the light field).
The speed of 300 fps with a resolution of 755 RAW Mp (40K) allows you to process a data stream of up to 400 GB every second. Such capabilities of Lytro Cinema will allow operators to say goodbye to the burden of classic green screens, since the camera is able to select and capture only those objects that need to be saved in a particular scene, including details that seem insignificant at first glance. This makes it possible to bring the process of creating and adding visual effects in a film to a new level.
Lytro Cinema provides the operator with an expanded range of possibilities for post-processing the footage: it becomes possible to change the focus point, adjust the depth of field, shutter speed, dynamic range (16 steps) and more. This, in turn, eliminates the need to re-shoot the scene in the event that in fact there are errors in the shooting, which significantly reduces the total time taken to film. In addition, proprietary software opens up the possibility to adapt video material to the required frame rate and select a video format, for example, for IMAX or television.
The complexity and cost of the materials used in the production of Lytro Cinema also determine the price of a turnkey solution, which the company has not yet reported. But it is known that the camera, along with proprietary software, will be leased, the cost of which will be $ 125,000.
Taking into account the proposed conditions, it can be expected that the privilege to shoot with the help of the Lytro Cinema camera will be available for individual studios with multi-million dollar budgets. For low-budget studios, the capabilities of the company's product will remain an unrealizable dream.
Quick reference
Lytro Inc. (Mountain View, CA, USA) - a relatively young, but ambitious company, the first to propose to use in the video industry the concept of so-called. "Light field". The creation of the most powerful light field visualization platform today will significantly expand the capabilities of not only creative professionals, but also the scientific community and researchers, they are confident in the company. The use of the platform will create fundamentally new opportunities in the art of photography, cinematography, to improve the technology of virtual reality.
Lytro was founded in 2006. Founder and chief executive officer Ren Ang (Ren Ng), who received the Stanford University prize for the best dissertation on computer visualization of the light field.
The first commercial product based on the principles of the light field was released Lytro 2011. The company has created and continues to create software tools that allow to use the capabilities of the light field outside the cinema. The latest updates of the Lytro OSVE and Lytro Power Tools software products have provided developers with access to a detailed study of the light field technologies using the tools already developed.
In 2015, Lytro announced the launch of large-scale projects related to cinema, virtual reality, searching for ways and means of applying the light field in science and industry. The company is positioning itself as the center of a new technological ecosystem integrating the capabilities of the light field in various areas.
Lytro Inc. collaborates with the largest venture capital funds - Andreessen-Horowitz, Mark Andriessen, Greylock Partners, Reed Hoffman, and NEA (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)) Scott Sandell.
Engadget
Lytro
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Last week, Lytro announced its intention to leave the compact camera market and focus on the virtual reality segment. At the same time, the past week is connected with another, no less, if not more significant event in the life of the company - the presentation of the unique Lytro Cinema camera for cinema.
The vast majority of digital cameras, claiming the title of advanced, in many ways lagged behind the realities of modern film production with the ubiquitous use of impressive digital special effects. In order to integrate real actors into the digital world, as before, one has to go through the stage of shooting a particular scene against a blue, and more often green screen. The way to solve the problem the company Lytro saw in the possibilities of the light field.
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A complex of micro-lenses is embedded in the light field camera Lytro Cinema between the primary lens and the image sensor. Its task is to refract the light flux passing through the lens and its subsequent separation into thousands of individual light rays fixed by the sensor and then by the integrated processor as a file with the extension ".lpf" (image of the light field).
The speed of 300 fps with a resolution of 755 RAW Mp (40K) allows you to process a data stream of up to 400 GB every second. Such capabilities of Lytro Cinema will allow operators to say goodbye to the burden of classic green screens, since the camera is able to select and capture only those objects that need to be saved in a particular scene, including details that seem insignificant at first glance. This makes it possible to bring the process of creating and adding visual effects in a film to a new level.
Lytro Cinema provides the operator with an expanded range of possibilities for post-processing the footage: it becomes possible to change the focus point, adjust the depth of field, shutter speed, dynamic range (16 steps) and more. This, in turn, eliminates the need to re-shoot the scene in the event that in fact there are errors in the shooting, which significantly reduces the total time taken to film. In addition, proprietary software opens up the possibility to adapt video material to the required frame rate and select a video format, for example, for IMAX or television.
The complexity and cost of the materials used in the production of Lytro Cinema also determine the price of a turnkey solution, which the company has not yet reported. But it is known that the camera, along with proprietary software, will be leased, the cost of which will be $ 125,000.
Taking into account the proposed conditions, it can be expected that the privilege to shoot with the help of the Lytro Cinema camera will be available for individual studios with multi-million dollar budgets. For low-budget studios, the capabilities of the company's product will remain an unrealizable dream.
Quick reference
Lytro Inc. (Mountain View, CA, USA) - a relatively young, but ambitious company, the first to propose to use in the video industry the concept of so-called. "Light field". The creation of the most powerful light field visualization platform today will significantly expand the capabilities of not only creative professionals, but also the scientific community and researchers, they are confident in the company. The use of the platform will create fundamentally new opportunities in the art of photography, cinematography, to improve the technology of virtual reality.
Lytro was founded in 2006. Founder and chief executive officer Ren Ang (Ren Ng), who received the Stanford University prize for the best dissertation on computer visualization of the light field.
The first commercial product based on the principles of the light field was released Lytro 2011. The company has created and continues to create software tools that allow to use the capabilities of the light field outside the cinema. The latest updates of the Lytro OSVE and Lytro Power Tools software products have provided developers with access to a detailed study of the light field technologies using the tools already developed.
In 2015, Lytro announced the launch of large-scale projects related to cinema, virtual reality, searching for ways and means of applying the light field in science and industry. The company is positioning itself as the center of a new technological ecosystem integrating the capabilities of the light field in various areas.
Lytro Inc. collaborates with the largest venture capital funds - Andreessen-Horowitz, Mark Andriessen, Greylock Partners, Reed Hoffman, and NEA (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)) Scott Sandell.
Engadget
Lytro
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