Today Chris will discuss the Lytro camera with John Arnold of Photowalkthrough fame, and we will find out the difference between an electronic and a mechanical shutter and what the respective advantages and disadvantages are.
Show Links:
- Photo Workshops in Berlin, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Toronto and Vancouver
- Photowalkthrough by John Arnold
- Lytro
- 2012 is shaping up to be exciting
- Lightroom 4.1 release candidate
- Electronic vs. mechanical shutters (PDF)
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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
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Lightroom 4 is out but it has a migration bug that replaced all of the tone curves for Chris. Find the latest status 
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