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Why Lytro?

Radical Camera Lets You Pick What’s Blurry And What’s Not (AllThingsD)

Lytro's revolutionary new camera reinvents the point-and-shoot camera, allowing you to focus or refocus your photographs after you take them.

Walt Mossberg found it easy to use.

I’ve been testing the Lytro and found it does just what it says. I was able to take rapid-fire shots that looked good on my computer, and that could be focused and refocused, uploaded to the Internet and shared. I consider it a revolution in consumer photography, with more benefits to come.

But then maybe he did not.

But the main drawback to the Lytro I discovered is that it takes a while to learn how to spot and frame pictures that show off the camera’s refocusing abilities. Also, in many common situations, such as taking a simple picture of a single face or object, the refocusing ability just doesn’t come into play, since it works best when there are multiple objects arranged so that some are in the foreground and some are in the background.

So the camera that is touted as helping people take better photos without any specialised training — presumably because they are too lazy to learn how to focus on the right subject - still requires training for effective use? I suggest spending half of that $399 on a decent point-n-shoot and the other half on a photography course.

Biggest Risk to the Economy

Modern technologies allow us to shop in real time, often worldwide, for the lowest prices, highest quality, and best returns. Through the Internet and advanced software we can now get relevant information instantaneously, compare deals, and move our money at the speed of electronic impulses. We can buy goods over the Internet that are delivered right to our homes. Never before in history have consumers and investors been so empowered. Yet these great deals increasingly come at the expense of our own and our compatriots’ jobs and wages, and widening inequality. The goods we want or the returns we seek can often be produced more efficiently elsewhere around the world by companies offering lower pay, fewer benefits, and inferior working conditions. They also come at the expense of our Main Streets – the hubs of our communities – when we get the great deals through the Internet or at big-box retailers that scan the world for great deals on our behalf.Source: Robert ReichPlease shop from your local small business owner. They may not beat the prices of the big box stores but you’ll be putting food on the table of the kids your kids sit with in school.The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What's the Economy For Anyway?