Lytro announces the astonishing Illum camera with 30-250mm constant f/2.0 lens!

Well, this is a small revolution for digital photography! Finally Lytro released a real useful Light Fiel camera, the new Illum! It has a much larger 1 inch sensor (the predecessor had a 1/3 inch sensor) and an astonishing 30-250mm f/2.0 constant aperture lens!

You can get all the info and see image samples at https://www.lytro.com/

This might well become the future of photography don’t you think?

New Canon patent describes 22-46mm f/3.5-5.6 EOS-M lens.

This is a new lens patent describing a new EOS-M 22-46mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

  • Patent Publication No. 2014-63025
    • Publication date 2014.4.10
    • Filing date 2012.9.21
  • Example 7
    • Zoom ratio 2.09
    • Focal length f = 22.10-34.22-45.19mm
    • Fno. 3.60-4.59-5.60
    • Half angle ? = 31.72-21.76-16.48 °
    • Image height 13.66mm
    • 65.76-62.07-64.72mm lens length
    • BF 28.16-36.88-45.09mm

Found via CanonWatch.