This is a subject you don't want to get close to. This scary spider was re-focused after the photo was taken. Picture: Lytro Source: Supplied
Foreground, background, midground - all these are to become a thing of the past. Picture: Lytro Source: Supplied
Lytro cameras let you refocus an image from any point. Picture: Lytro Source: Supplied
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LAST night's pictures a little blurry? Are your photography skills less than inspiring?
Well thanks to a new camera, badly focused images are one less thing you?ll have to worry about.
Silicon Valley start-up Lytro has developed the technology that lets you refocus on any point in an image after it has been taken.
Be the focus or let former US Presidents take the lead - here's a before and after shot of a tourist at Mount Rushmore. Picture: Lytro
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It works by recording as much data as possible about the light field in front of the lens ? delivering a digital photo that you can adjust in almost an infinite number of ways.
Users can focus on any point in the photo, change the light levels ? and if using a 3D camera - tilt and shift the image in three dimensions.
The camera is the brain child of Dr Ren Ng ? a Stanford professor whose research has been named best doctoral dissertation in computer science by the Association for Computing Machinery.
A blurry butterfly before and after. Picture: Lytro
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With Dr Ng?s technology, images ?become interactive, living pictures,? he told The New York Times.
Dr Ng has been praised for his Lytro camera which is the equivalent of strapping 100 digital cameras to a supercomputer and squeezing the technology into a camera the size of a lipstick case, the report said.
The camera is more like a viewfinder ? it?s long and thin with a rubberised end and has just two buttons and a sliding zoom.
View the images you've taken via a small screen on the end of the camera. Picture: Lytro
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Its storage capacity ranges from 8GB to 16GB depending on the model, and you should be able to fill the entire memory with pictures before the battery runs out, according to Mashable.
You can download images to your computer via USB. Once the images are downloaded you can then manipulate the photo using a specialised photo interface which also lets you share images with your friends on Facebook, and other social networks.
A camera shaped like a lipstick? Who would have thought something so small could harness such power. Picture: Lytro
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According to the website, if you share your images from a Mac computer, your friends will also have the same ability to play with the photos without needing any special software.
The cameras are available to pre-order on Lytro?s website. Prices start at US$399 ($390). A more advanced model will cost you US$499 ($487).
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