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While I agree that Lytro is a gadget and it's not going very far, I strongly disagree with you here: > 2) No one cares about adjusting focus after the fact, ge

by falling 15y ago

While I agree that Lytro is a gadget and it's not going very far, I strongly disagree with you here: > 2) No one cares about adjusting focus after the fact, get it right the first time, or don't bother. You could say the same about exposure, white balance and RAW files. I'm still shooting film on a manual exposure and manual focus camera, so I know that those features are not strictly necessary, but they surely are convenient.

9999 15y ago
White balance and exposure definitely are useful settings for pros, but even for pros I don't see the post-process focus selection being all that useful, certainly not considering the tradeoffs they made. Personally I shoot with just about everything. A big DSLR, my cellphone, compact digicams, film rangefinders with and without meters, film SLRs, giant medium format and large format cameras, etc. But I am a total freak in that regard. The things that I find enormously useful and fascinating are completely irrelevant to normal people. Unfortunately, normal people won't be fascinated with the Lytro either.