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To coincide with tonight's video release, LG has given us two units of their PF1000U Short Throw Projectors to giveaway! This will be a worldwide giveaway with no age restrictions, see below for entry details.

Purchase Link: http://bit.ly/29tAdg7
 
 
To enter the giveaway:
 
1. Comment below, tell us your thoughts about the PF1000U projector.
 
2. Go say hi and give LG a follow over on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LGUS
 
*Entries close on 7/18/2016. 
 
The winner will be announced randomly, and you'll see their names edited into the bottom of this post. I will also DM the winners, and they'll have 72 hours to respond.
 
WINNERS:
tanilolli
Darkangel86
 
Thanks Everyone! 
 
 

While awesome, the technology is a decade or more away from prime time. Once you can buy memory cards by the petabyte  
But as soon as this tech is available for $20k or so, I will be picking it up. 
 Absolutely genius, revolutionary technology. It allows refocusing after post, as well as exposure and everything else.
 
 

Lytro Cinema is basically a camera that allows more post-production editing by capturing the scene in layers based on the distance of the camera. This allows the user to delete for example a background without touching what ever is in front of the background closer to the camera. This effectively eliminates the need for a greenscreen.
 
 
The way the camera works is that it creates a 3D space of the recorded area, and that also allows movement of the camera after it was shot increasing the stabilzation opportunities as post-processing effects. The camera also focuses on all depth surfaces, allowing the user to choose the focus point after shooting to create the depth of field effect digitally, or just to leave everything in the shot focused. Camera also allows you to change the framerate of an individual asset in the scene.
 
The CEO of Lytro, Jason Rosenthal, has confirmed in a recent blogpost that Lytro will be moving away from the consumer grade cameras, and focusing on VR and more professional part of the field. Reasoning behind this is the lowered interest in consumer grade cameras with the widespread of phones and their cameras and the better opportunities in the professional field.
 
 

 
 
Lytro Cinema prototype shown at NAB 2016
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Links to soruces/articles:
Lytro Cinema
Lytro Blog
TechCruch
DPreview Article 11th of April
DPreview Article 20th of April (NAB 2016)
PetaPixel
 
Camera known specifications:
755 RAW Megapixels
Up to 300 fps (I presume by lowering the quality)
Claimed to have a 40K resolution and 400GB write per second
Up to 16 stops of Dynamic Range
Intergrated High Res Active Scanning Systems
 
My thoughts:
I personally think that Lytro is onto something here. If this model isn't what sets the standard for big movie studios, the one that does set the standard will certainly be using this techonoly. At least we're headed in a new and interesting direction, and I myself am really interested to see where this direction leads.

Lytro Cinema is basically a camera that allows more post-production editing by capturing the scene in layers based on the distance of the camera. This allows the user to delete for example a background without touching what ever is in front of the background closer to the camera. This effectively eliminates the need for a greenscreen.
 
 
The way the camera works is that it creates a 3D space of the recorded area, and that also allows movement of the camera after it was shot increasing the stabilzation opportunities as post-processing effects. The camera also focuses on all depth surfaces, allowing the user to choose the focus point after shooting to create the depth of field effect digitally, or just to leave everything in the shot focused. Camera also allows you to change the framerate of an individual asset in the scene.
 
The CEO of Lytro, Jason Rosenthal, has confirmed in a recent blogpost that Lytro will be moving away from the consumer grade cameras, and focusing on VR and more professional part of the field. Reasoning behind this is the lowered interest in consumer grade cameras with the widespread of phones and their cameras and the better opportunities in the professional field.
 
 

 
 
Lytro Cinema prototype shown at NAB 2016
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Links to soruces/articles:
Lytro Cinema
Lytro Blog
TechCruch
DPreview Article 11th of April
DPreview Article 20th of April (NAB 2016)
PetaPixel
 
Camera known specifications:
755 RAW Megapixels
Up to 300 fps (I presume by lowering the quality)
Claimed to have a 40K resolution and 400GB write per second
Up to 16 stops of Dynamic Range
Intergrated High Res Active Scanning Systems
 
My thoughts:
I personally think that Lytro is onto something here. If this model isn't what sets the standard for big movie studios, the one that does set the standard will certainly be using this techonoly. At least we're headed in a new and interesting direction, and I myself am really interested to see where this direction leads.

Latest Xeons can support up to 1536 GB of buffered ECC DDR4, but such high-capacity DIMM modules (even for 16-slot dual socket system) are still unavailable, I think.

Lytro Cinema is basically a camera that allows more post-production editing by capturing the scene in layers based on the distance of the camera. This allows the user to delete for example a background without touching what ever is in front of the background closer to the camera. This effectively eliminates the need for a greenscreen.
 
 
The way the camera works is that it creates a 3D space of the recorded area, and that also allows movement of the camera after it was shot increasing the stabilzation opportunities as post-processing effects. The camera also focuses on all depth surfaces, allowing the user to choose the focus point after shooting to create the depth of field effect digitally, or just to leave everything in the shot focused. Camera also allows you to change the framerate of an individual asset in the scene.
 
The CEO of Lytro, Jason Rosenthal, has confirmed in a recent blogpost that Lytro will be moving away from the consumer grade cameras, and focusing on VR and more professional part of the field. Reasoning behind this is the lowered interest in consumer grade cameras with the widespread of phones and their cameras and the better opportunities in the professional field.
 
 

 
 
Lytro Cinema prototype shown at NAB 2016
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Links to soruces/articles:
Lytro Cinema
Lytro Blog
TechCruch
DPreview Article 11th of April
DPreview Article 20th of April (NAB 2016)
PetaPixel
 
Camera known specifications:
755 RAW Megapixels
Up to 300 fps (I presume by lowering the quality)
Claimed to have a 40K resolution and 400GB write per second
Up to 16 stops of Dynamic Range
Intergrated High Res Active Scanning Systems
 
My thoughts:
I personally think that Lytro is onto something here. If this model isn't what sets the standard for big movie studios, the one that does set the standard will certainly be using this techonoly. At least we're headed in a new and interesting direction, and I myself am really interested to see where this direction leads.

By the way, the size and complexity of this lightfield camera resembles another cinematic invention half a century ago -- the Three Strip Technicolor camera: 
 

Lightfield technology was primed to phase out the green-screen composition, since the major feature of this type of cameras is the ability to capture and reconstruct the precise depth information from the image. Then it's only a matter of simple coding in the post-production to tell the video processing application where is deeper or closer from the camera position and render anything in between.
The thing won't be cheap, though. Managing the gigantic data streams will keep this technology exclusive to the multi-million productions for the time being. Also, a whole new tool chain have to be developed for this kind of post-processing.