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		chernand on April 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app You can extract the computed depthmap, all-in-focus image, and focus settings from the XMP data of the jpeg. See https://developers.google.com/depthmap-metadata/ for the depthmap format.

dharma1 on April 17, 2014 [–]

That is awesome! But I think he meant the RAW image that hasn't still been debayered or saved in a lossy 8bit format (jpg)

It made the news last year but I guess hasn't still landed? For post processing, the RAW is so much more useful than a jpg

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/2707133307/google-android-a...

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