So What’s the Verdict?
For one, it doesn’t like the extreme temperature of the harsh wintery North, totally shutting down into a dead silence when exposed momentarily. Twenty below freezing is, to be fair, not exactly a temperature most camera can withstand anyway.
The Lytro Illum can deliver some decent stills if you know how to go about crafting your meticulous shot followed by a rather awkward workflow on a beefy computer. This skill sure come in very handy when you simply cannot find a subject set to stack your shot with. Yes, I do shoot it with my Manfrotto LED array mounted on its hot shoe when ambient light is weak, knowing the Illum’s inability to properly focus in low lights.
In addition, the Lytro desktop 5 will occasionally crash on the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, making relaunching the app a slight inconvenience, when compared to her Mac OS X variant, which it totally refuse to even run on.
More to come, as I continue my exploration of this wonderful camera!
