I bought one of the original Lytros and agree with all the author's points. The article mentions one thing that was a particular disappointment to me: the Lytro

I bought one of the original Lytros and agree with all the author's points. The article mentions one thing that was a particular disappointment to me: the Lytro website let you upload your pictures, but then it was up to people looking at the pictures to click around to focus on different things. Who wants to do that when they view a photo gallery? Anyone? What I'd hoped for was a way that I, the photographer, could set up an automatic "focus pull" to tell a story. For example, one of my Lytro shots was a young lady walking her dog, who had his nose almost right up to the lens. It would have been fun to start the picture focused on the dog's nose, and then slowly pull the focus back to his owner. But that would be something I would want to do to help tell a story, instead of expecting the person viewing the photo to figure it out on their own.