[smart_track_player url="http://media.blubrry.com/thisweekinphoto/p/content.blubrry.com/thisweekinphoto/AAtG-033-Lytro-Illum.mp3" color="6a1915" title="Lytro Illum" artist="All About the Gear" ]A year ago we reviewed the original Lytro camera. Doug didn’t think Lytro was really in the camera business, but rather into technology licensing. But that camera’s successor, the Illum, is much more like what we think of as a camera, albeit with radically new light-field technology.

The $1600 Lytro Illum looks and feels like a small DSLR with the unique ability to shoot now and focus later. It has a fast f/2.0 zoom lens that can effectively give you the depth-of-field of f/16 after post-processing. The camera can produce 3D images in red/cyan format or for 3DTV. It can also generate Ken Burns-style videos and what Lytro calls “Living Pictures” for display online.

Doug and Frederick try to make sense of one of the most unusual cameras to come along in many decades.

Show notes:

* You can buy Red/Cyan Glasses on Amazon:  http://goo.gl/QyrTbB

* You’ll find Doug’s Lytro Gallery at https://pictures.lytro.com/dougkaye/albums/172288