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		slaven on April 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app Yes - you have to move the camera upwards as it takes a series of photos. It is not working from a single photo.

JimmaDaRustla on April 16, 2014 [–]

I just used it, it seems to use the movement to calculate the depth, but the initial image is not blurred or mutated in any way other than how it has calculated the depth.

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