Lytro Camera Gets New Manual Controls [HANDS ON]

The Lytro camera is getting a major software upgrade. The quirky camera that can take photos you can re-focus later is adding extra manual controls, giving users more creative freedom.

You may remember the Lytro -- the stick-of-butter-shaped camera that shoots square photos that will magically re-focus any point the viewer clicks on. That ability, called light-field photography, earned the camera praise for being novel, although the camera itself was criticized for its limited resolution, which is a little more than a megapixel.

The new controls obviously do nothing to boost resolution, but having more control over the light the camera takes in will give users the ability capture p…
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