The "old" Lytro had a very small sensor. To be able to experience any control over DOF you had to challenge yourself to create compositions that would include objects of interest both close and far away to be able to even play with "the effect". For my shooting style the technology was totally pointless. Pictures with objects of interest at 1.5 meters up to infinity were sharp all over the place anyway.
Perhaps this new thing will bring something new to the scene. But at 5 MP it feels immature. The technology friendly photographers it could attract are usually not so hot on bridge cameras with huge zoom lenses. Perhaps a fixed lens (or 24-50mm equiv) would have been a better choice.
I suspect this will be the same. I think the future of focus control might lie in Google's new camera app[1] and phones with dual cameras. Just give them some raw format love (like the 1020 got).
Perhaps this new thing will bring something new to the scene. But at 5 MP it feels immature. The technology friendly photographers it could attract are usually not so hot on bridge cameras with huge zoom lenses. Perhaps a fixed lens (or 24-50mm equiv) would have been a better choice.
I suspect this will be the same. I think the future of focus control might lie in Google's new camera app[1] and phones with dual cameras. Just give them some raw format love (like the 1020 got).
[1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.se/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-g...