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I'm not sure that consumers don't care about bokeh, they just don't know how to achieve it. I've been using the Google camera app that does lens blur and everyo

I'm not sure that consumers don't care about bokeh, they just don't know how to achieve it. I've been using the Google camera app that does lens blur and everyone I show it to loves it. It's a little cumbersome to use though and require a still subject. Maybe light field could be one of the features that keep compact cameras around in the face of competition from phones. I also wonder if there are computer vision applications. I don't know how accurate depth fields from stereoscopic images are, and maybe two cameras are not always practical...

dpark 13y ago
Bokeh isn't just reduced depth of field. Bokeh is the quality of the out-of-focus areas. Shallow depth of field makes the bokeh more apparent, but the two are somewhat orthogonal. Looking at Lytro's examples, e.g. [1], I would say that the Illum demonstrates poor quality bokeh as a result of the sensor limitations. The bokeh is quite noisy and pixelated (which is a strange thing to say about bokeh, but it's the result of the microlens sampling the Lytro sensor does). The technology is very interesting, but looking at Lytro's pictures has convinced me that their camera will not suit my needs any time soon. [1] https://pictures.lytro.com/lytro/albums/149429/embed?token=6cb04136-c43a-11e3-9416-22000a8b14ce https://pictures.lytro.com/lytro/albums/149429/embed?token=6...