{"id":10251,"date":"2011-11-07T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10251"},"modified":"2011-11-07T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:00:09","slug":"let-me-focus-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10251","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Focus for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/compound-eye\/2011\/11\/06\/what-good-is-the-lytro-light-field-camera\/\">What Good Is The Lytro Light-Field Camera?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fundamental problem for a light-field revolution, though, is that focus is not the limiting factor for most photographers. Fixing focus issues doesn\u2019t add much to a photographer\u2019s tool kit. Light sensitivity, magnification, dynamic range, stabilization, resolution- these are all areas where technological improvements solve immediate hurdles for different genres of photography. Focusing? Not so much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, really?  Focusing is not the limiting factor?  I think that the author is not looking from the proper perspective.  It may not be an issue for a professional photographer or even the accomplished amateur, but the point-and-shoot crowd probably has issue with autofocus grabbing the wrong target, ruining the shot, or the delay from it making you miss it.  And this is a product for that crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The included example is quite interesting, allowing you to focus on the fore-, mid- or background, which changes the emphasis of the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Good Is The Lytro Light-Field Camera? The fundamental problem for a light-field revolution, though, is that focus is not the limiting factor for most photographers. Fixing focus issues doesn\u2019t add much to a photographer\u2019s tool kit. Light sensitivity, magnification, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}