On Wed, June 22, 2011 09:05, Lea Murphy wrote: > The potential of this is simply stunning. Game changing. > > It's akin to RAW processing for focus...a photograph can become any of a > number of different interpretations. And the camera can be mechanically simpler (mirrorless no longer has serious disadvantages compared to SLR), and there's no focus delay any more. And no more failing to lock on to the primary target. And no more failures of fancy tracking modes. > I'm so excited to see where this goes. Likewise. I'm a little afraid they'll kill this first round by trying to market it as a mass-market toy (all that talk about Facebook aps and letting viewers adjust the focus point); I expect those will be very cool for about 3 weeks, and then boring, to most people. The real potential is for serious photography. Less profitable to them, though. But maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe it'll be cheap enough that the benefits to "serious photography" will be visible even to casual snapshooters. There's a good article in the NYT also <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/technology/22camera.html>. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
