It may look like a kid’s kaleidoscope, but the new Lytro Light Field digital camera is the only camera around that offers photographers a second chance.

It’s no cyborg eye camera, but with the Lytro, there are no more blurry, out-of-focus pics. The Lytro allows users, both on the camera and once the digital images are downloaded, the opportunity to select which part of the shot they want to focus on well after the picture is taken.

A normal digital camera saves only the light angle information required to make one snapshot. The Lytro records multiple light angles – the light field – allowing the user to change the point of focus merely by clicking from an object in the foreground to an object in the midrange or on an object in the background. Here’s the Lytro site’s description of how the camera works, “The light field sensor captures the color, intensity and vector direction of the rays of light. This directional information is completely lost with traditional camera sensors, which simply add up all the light rays and record them as a single amount of light. “

The company’s Web site has a gallery of photos you can click on to play with the focus, allowing you to see the range of change available in each shot.

The cameras aren’t outrageously priced with a 16 GB version for $499 and an 8GB version for $399.

This camera is so cool, I’m not even sure if Andrew McDonald’s theft-proof images would get the camera returned to him if he lost it.

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