The 5D Mark II is an awesome camera in a lot of ways but it has fairly slow autofocus speed for a camera in its class.
It is outpaced quite a bit by even "lesser" (more consumer oriented) cameras like the 70D (though as with anything this is a trade-off since the 70D is a cropped-sensor, so IQ not quite as good under ideal situations, worse low-light performance, etc).
Here's a photo I took a couple of months ago with the 70D, one of a series of 5 that were all pretty well focused (considering the subject was a cheetah running at nearly full speed) using the "AI Servo" autofocus mode:
(To be fair, such photos still aren't exactly point and shoot on my 70D, you have to be fairly decent at panning at that speed)
You do have a point though in that the current situation for me is needing to have multiple cameras (70D for fast action, Sony A7 for relatively still shots with very high image quality, Canon EOS M for carrying around everywhere). I don't think this Lytro comes anywhere close to changing that situation, though computational imaging in general will probably solve the issue eventually.
Yeah, I don't fully understand the tradeoffs yet. I know that it has much better noise level than my last rebel. And the full frame sensor is very nice. (Though, now I want a good 50mm lens).
I'm definitely game for any advice I can get. I hate that I let that example detract from the discussion, which is for average photographers, something like this could help a lot. Doesn't sound like it is fully there, yet. But it is promising. Especially in tandem with the app idea. Exciting times are ahead for getting folks into photography.
It is outpaced quite a bit by even "lesser" (more consumer oriented) cameras like the 70D (though as with anything this is a trade-off since the 70D is a cropped-sensor, so IQ not quite as good under ideal situations, worse low-light performance, etc).
Here's a photo I took a couple of months ago with the 70D, one of a series of 5 that were all pretty well focused (considering the subject was a cheetah running at nearly full speed) using the "AI Servo" autofocus mode:
http://i.imgur.com/jMOKZk0.jpg
(To be fair, such photos still aren't exactly point and shoot on my 70D, you have to be fairly decent at panning at that speed)
You do have a point though in that the current situation for me is needing to have multiple cameras (70D for fast action, Sony A7 for relatively still shots with very high image quality, Canon EOS M for carrying around everywhere). I don't think this Lytro comes anywhere close to changing that situation, though computational imaging in general will probably solve the issue eventually.