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I think focusing (pardon the pun) on the "focus later" feature is limiting, for a lot of people this doesn't matter and it rubs many photographers the wrong way, as seen from the comments. Rather, I think they should emphasize that this is a new way of taking pictures, you may decide to have different focus planes on different parts of the photo, which may lead to interesting new effects in photography. It also has many scientific applications.


No question, the technology is more impressive than the product. Most people don't need more than the camera in an iPhone 4S.

I think this lightfield tech might have a lot more applications for video, where focus can be troublesome due to movement.




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