Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M
by giobox on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:35PM
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How recent is your experience with "traditional" phase detect/contrast AF? There's been some ridiculously good improvements even in the past 12 months in cameras like the Nikon D850/Sony A7 XXX, to the point where fancy "lightfield" style setting focus in post like the Lytro is way lower on my personal wishlist than it once was. The eye detect AF in the Sonys is frankly superb when working with extremely shallow DoF. This stuff typically filters down range to cheaper models really quickly as well.
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Re:Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M
by majormajor on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:23PM
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It's a recent camera but not top of the line (Fuji X-T2).
My problem is more that with animals, it's hard to make sure it's picked up the head vs the shoulders, say, and with shallow DOF that can ruin the shot. But then, I don't have eye detection, so maybe that would do the trick. :)