Might want to wait before you buy your next camera (Page 3): Composition and position are the real name of the game.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

sirlensalot wrote:

Agreed. It seems like it would (just about) remove the need for a skilled photographer.

Composition and position are the real name of the game.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

So where do the manual shooters fit into this technology?
Will they take all this tech and just turn it off?
Will it have video?
Or will they just all fall for whatever gimmick is out that looks like an old camera?!
Because they don't need no steenkeen post-focus baudges! :lol: :lol:
SS

gonate Loc: sacramento,calif

:thumbdown: Well I am already 76 years old , How long due you suggest I wait, maybe I can wait for you in la la land, But I most likely move forward. THANK YOU. your suggestion is well taken.

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Singing Swan wrote:

I just saw a commercial on television for one of these ...a Canon commercial at that!!

And one of the Intel ads done by Jim Parsons. On a tablet!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Lytro concept has been around for about five years. Until you see evidence of shipping product, I'd avoid excitement.

Need a camera? Go get one!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

banjonut wrote:

There's always something new just around the corner.

That's why you have to look both ways before your cross the street. :D

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Lytro cameras are available now:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Shop-by-Brand-Lytro/ci/4/phd/4049451829/N/4294255798

RICARDOOO Loc: Findlay, Ohio

dirty dave wrote:

Rumors are going around that very soon a new generation of DSLR and other cameras are coming out with a new system that can focus after you shoot just in case you shot before you got your camera focused. If it is true it would be great especially shooting sports or nature when sometimes you have to shoot fast. I am personaly waiting to see. Has any one else heard of this?

This already advertised on TV

gypsy02 Loc: Indiana

a new system that can focus after you shoot just in case you shot before you got your camera focused.

Wow! Won't that take a lot out of the challenge of getting good photos? That's part of the fun although very frustrating at times! :)

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

dirty dave wrote:

Rumors are going around that very soon a new generation of DSLR and other cameras are coming out with a new system that can focus after you shoot just in case you shot before you got your camera focused. If it is true it would be great especially shooting sports or nature when sometimes you have to shoot fast. I am personaly waiting to see. Has any one else heard of this?

Those cameras have been around for a few years now, the Lytro I think it's called. It's the third generation by now, so it's not anything really new.

OonlyBonly

dirty dave wrote:

Rumors are going around that very soon a new generation of DSLR and other cameras are coming out with a new system that can focus after you shoot just in case you shot before you got your camera focused. If it is true it would be great especially shooting sports or nature when sometimes you have to shoot fast. I am personaly waiting to see. Has any one else heard of this?

I have an LG G3 which does that. Very interesting!

pete-m Loc: Casper, WY

dpullum wrote:

When all the problems are gone to automatic-land, then why are we photographers needed. Composition? What would else exists?

Some large newspapers have already got rid of their photographers and require their reporters to take over for them.

twindad Loc: SW Michigan, frolicking in the snow.

Still won't make you a better photographer.

tradergeorge Loc: Newport, Kentucky

SharpShooter wrote:

Dave, how ,long do you think we should wait?
Five years?
Ten years?
What if we get old waiting? Oh wait......., we ARE old! :lol: :lol: :lol: 🙈 🙉 🙊
SS

Don't wait for the LYTRO's....They just closed out a bunch of them on the WOOT site... That usually means they are not an overwhelming success...The concept is sound, but it may be something that is more of a novelty than the next great breakthrough in photography.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Anything that requires post processing is suspect in my book. I only want post-processing as an option, not a normal workflow.