I like this technology, but it's really a rare occasion that I've taken an out-of-focus photo. In fact, I can hardly think of one out of nearly a thousand pictures I've taken the last year, except for a few where I've used manual focus.
Are there any other photographers that really would find this useful? The only thing that I could gain from it is the fact that it looks like it has a relatively shallow DOF, which is a nice effect. But in some ways, it makes the camera feel gimmicky to me -- the DOF on all their photos is extremely shallow (aperture size???)
It's a constant f/2 lens, but that's fairly irrelevant as, given the way the camera works, you could use focus stacking to get the whole frame in focus if you wanted.
Of course, that depends on either software features or a lot of manual labour, which is why my main question about the device is how open/hackable the image format is.
I'd love to see the applications that come out of this - eg. ultra high-res 3d scanning from only a handful of photos - so I hope they've created it with a view to encouraging indipendent development.
It seems the examples are there just to showcase after-the-fact focusing, and that's clearly most easily done with a shallow DoF.
Are there any other photographers that really would find this useful? The only thing that I could gain from it is the fact that it looks like it has a relatively shallow DOF, which is a nice effect. But in some ways, it makes the camera feel gimmicky to me -- the DOF on all their photos is extremely shallow (aperture size???)