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user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lifelogging: You and Me (and an off-topic question at the end)

    Depth-of-field isn't something you can get after the fact, Lytro be damned, and shooting wide open will work 90% of the time.

Sure you can, you just need to a stereo pair to recover the depth. Taking a stereo pair so you can add depth of field with your computer is a little bit Rube Goldberg, but you can do it.





kleinbl00  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right - so either you sport a stereo rig or you only take pictures of things that don't move.

Would you prefer it if I said "depth-of-field isn't something you can practically get after the fact?" 'cuz I've worked with stereo rigs and I'm here to say - beam splitters are unpleasant.

user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I was just elaborating on "Lytro be damned". It's not undoable, it's just that toys that offer to do it are using brittle kludges to fake it.

kleinbl00  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough. As someone who used to shoot 6x7, there's a lot to be said for convenience.