The 755 megapixel Lytro Cinema lets filmmakers manipulate their shots in post-production like never before.
Lytro is a company with a truly unique imaging platform, one that its using to push TV and film to the next level.
The company uses Light Field imaging technology, that gathers data on all the available light in a frame and uses that to extrapolate the depths and positions of objects in the frame. That information can then be used to do a variety of things, like create VR setpieces that you can navigate through and see rendered from various viewpoints in real time. Lytro is now taking their light field technology to the movie industry, in a bid to give filmmakers unprecedented flexibility in their post-production.
The Lytro Cinema is their latest professional camera that captures a mind-boggling amount of data; "Every pixel has color properties, directional properties, and its exact placement in space." The camera has 755 RAW megapixels, 300 FPS and stores as much as 400GB per second. So what does all that data do? It lets filmmakers decide how they want their scene to look, irrespective of how it was shot on set. It allows directors to change depth of field, focus points, shutter speed, and the dynamic range, all in post production. When the Lytro Cinema shoots, it not only captures the intensity of light in the frame, but also it direction of travel, allowing you to effectively change how you shot your footage.
Aside from the obvious benefits, Lytro also says this makes CGI and real-world footage integration a lot easier, while also making the latter as easy to manipulate as visual effects. Translation? Right now, Hollywood has to use green screens to put real actors into magical settings, which involves turning studios into workable green screen back drops that they can add visual effects into. But with Lytro Cinema, you could record anywhere, and later separate your actors from the backdrop and add that in as CGI directly. For example, if you're shooting a fantasy epic, you could film your actors in an actual forest, and it would be much easier to add CGI between the actors in the foreground and the trees in the background, all with zero green screens.
Of course, sifting through and editing the monumentally large amounts of raw footage would be quite a task, but Lytro is trying to simplify that too. Filmmakers who take the plunge with their platform's new camera also get access to cloud storage and processing, and all the software plugins they might need during editing. And this is a camera you're only going to see in big budget films for a while; seeing as this is pioneering, cutting-edge technology, the Lytro Cinema rental price is US $125,000.
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