Now You Can Shift the Perspective of Your Lytro Photos

Lytro made a name for itself with its shoot-first-focus-later photos, captured by a new kind of photography that captures an entire "light field" of a scene. Now, Lytro is going beyond just refocusing, enabling users to shift the perspective of their photos as well as add filters.

Since the lens of the Lytro camera is quite large, and it captures light-direction data, it's possible to slightly shift the perspective of any light-field image. First, the viewer needs to put the photo "all in focus" -- another feature that comes with the software update -- essentially flattening the image, focus-wise. You do that by clicking and holding (or, on a touch screen, pressing and holding), and t…
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