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it's not a DSLR, but some recent Panasonic mirrorless cameras have this https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/feature/post_focus.html https://www.pana
by anentropic 9y ago
it's not a DSLR, but some recent Panasonic mirrorless cameras have this
https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/feature/post_focus.html https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/feature/post...
- giobox 9y agoThis isn’t really all that comparable to the Lytro - this is effectively a hack that takes advantage of some Panasonic camera’s ability to shoot 4K jpeg bursts at 30FPS - it racks the focus as it shoots a burst so you can pick from a range of focus points. The subject can still move noticeably in between shots, it’s not a single shot style solution like the Lytro has. I have a Panasonic m43 camera with this feature and almost never use it, It’s just a fast implementation of focus bracketing and you take a pretty big resolution/quality hit. The new “Dual Pixel AF” sensors in some newer Canon DSLRs is much more like the Lytro, in that focus can be adjusted slightly in a single image capture, no burst capture trickery.
- anentropic 9y agoYes, it's just focus-bracketing and that's as close as any non-Lytro cameras come to the Lytro feature as far as I'm aware Reading a description of the Canon Dual-Pixel sensor feature https://www.canon.co.uk/cameras/eos-5d-mark-iv/dual-pixel-raw/ https://www.canon.co.uk/cameras/eos-5d-mark-iv/dual-pixel-ra... ...it does not seem that it allows to adjust focus after the fact. It's something different again from Lytro and focus-bracketing. As far as I can tell what it does is to capture depth information into the RAW file. I don't see how it could allow refocusing, but the examples show it allows you to selectively mask areas of the image based on distance from camera. So you can sharpen 'just the eyes' if you slightly missed focus on them. Or selectively blur the front/back out of focus areas to get a stronger bokeh effect.