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hey guys Brian song here with cnet com and we wanted to give you a first look at some of the new hot features for the Lytro camera is text most buzz-worthy camera and it's shipping right now from Lytro com now to catch you up to speed the light rail camera is unlike any other with a unique design that uses light field technology to capture all the light information color intensity and direction the light is moving in a single picture now you won't need a focus you just take a picture and with all this information you can choose the subject or your object you want to focus on after the fact with what they call their living pictures now they've added a few new improvements to their interface where you can swipe from the bottom of the screen and you'll get a menu bar for battery life and the amount of picture space available but you'll also get a new mode called creative mode by default the camera is set to light rose everyday mode with their default settings that's set to a 3x optical zoom but it has limitations with how you can compose shots creative mode unlocks the 8x optical zoom range and allows you to control and composure shots like let's take an extreme macro shot we've seen shots like this in popular food photography and also to showcase textures or you've seen portrait shots where subject is in focus but the background is completely blurred out it will also allow you to zoom in and out of a subject after you've set the focal point for a more dramatic effect and better shot composition control now this is all part of the creative mode but an all in focus mode that point of shoot camera users are familiar with will be a software update in the first half of this year now you can also interact with your pictures directly on the camera screen but sharing is a big piece of the puzzle now the software lives locally on the camera and you can install it when you plug it in it's only currently Mac compatible but lytro says there will be a windows version of the software coming by the end of 2012 now each picture is stored locally on your computer that takes up about 16 megs through their Lytro app you'll upload your living pictures that are stored on their own servers they said it's unlimited storage right now and they'll process them down to about a 500k 21 Meg file depending on how many multiple perspectives you have now you can then share that living picture through social networks like Facebook Twitter and Google Plus or embed them in light shows flash or html5 player you'll also be able to right click on a picture and convert it into a 1080 x 1080 jpeg file that's compressed down to size for you now the light show camera is only available through their website at lytro calm starting at 399 for an aching model and they say it will be available in unnamed retail channels later this year so there you have it I'm Bryant on with your quick first look at some of the new features with the launch of the truly revolutionary light show camera