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I'm pretty surprised that they don't have a "play with the focus" widget on the homepage. It took me too many clicks to find out why I needed this camera.

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The messaging is definitely lacking. My first reaction was why are all the images in the gallery out of focus.

This is quite amazing.

If you click on the images found on the linked page, they refocus.

Probably because it takes too long to load the images.

For those who didn't find it right away: https://www.lytro.com/living-pictures

Fun times. Too bad the science requires a deep back... would be awesome to have this technology in your cellphone... hopefully we're just a few years away. Technology is amazing.

It doesn't. I've seen it in a normal camera form-factor. It does require a larger sensor, though.

A normal camera is much deeper than a cellphone. At least one I'd like to carry with me ;-)

Nokia once had a cellphone with the camera on the side, mounted in the clamshell hinge. With smaller lenses it could be a side-facing camera.

Are you talking about the Nokia N93? A friend of mine had it. It was the only cell phone I'd seen with optical zoom.

It's most probably the only one where an optical zoom would fit. A quite ingenious solution. A periscope-like mount would also be viable for cellphones - it would still be at least twice as large as a common camera, but it wouldn't be much deeper.

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