Focus stacking on smartphone cameras is not an entirely new thing. It was used on some Nokia Lumia phones, including the Lumia 1520 in 2014, to create a shallow depth-of-field effect and allow for refocusing an image after capture, similar to what the Lytro light field cameras can do. However, now it appears Apple is also taking an interest in the technique. The company describesa method for the optimization of focus stacking in a patent application that was filed in 2015, but only published in ...
Focus stacking on smartphone cameras is not an entirely new thing. It was used on some Nokia Lumia phones, including the Lumia 1520 in 2014, to create a shallow depth-of-field effect and allow for refocusing an image after capture, similar to what the Lytro light field cameras can do. However, now it appears Apple is also taking an interest in the technique. The company describesa method for the optimization of focus stacking in a patent application that was filed in 2015, but only published in ...
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