Re: the Next Big Thing

[Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While being able to play with DoF after the fact sounds appealing, this 
doesn't look like the camera to do it for me

just looking at their website https://www.lytro.com/camera I see an example 
pic of an 'out of focus' situation, showing the standard  HUGE depth of 
field found with tiny sensors...  horrible.  and that's supposed to be with 
the constant f2 lens.

I'm intrigued by the concept, optics are fascinating, but after the looking 
hard at telecentricity and telecentric lenses for a while I just ended up 
with a headache, and there's a lot more written about that than this new 
device.  They offer some background to it here: 
https://www.lytro.com/science_inside
(awful lens diagrams!)

Oh well, I guess since consumer cameras drive the market, we may eventually 
see something wit a bigger sensor but i'm not holding my breath.

k


PS: I'm still much happier with touching up a print from a damaged negative 
that trying to rebuild a damaged data file ;)