> > > From: Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: the Next Big Thing > > > 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. Don't be too quick to write off this new technology or else we will all sound like those who dismissed digital cameras when the first consumer items appeared. "It will never catch on" they said, "never replace REAL film", and now look - Polaroid has gone, Ilford has gone, Kodak may even follow them into oblivion - all because the public, in their millions, enthusiastically adopted the "new" technology. I once used a Fuji bridge camera, a Leica digital camera, and a mobile (cell) phone - now 90% of my photography is done on an iPhone 4, soon to be replaced by the 8 MP iPhone 4S - such is progress. Oh brave new world, that has such wonderful things in it.
