Micro Four Thirds keeps GAS under control (for now)

Alex Notpro wrote:

markintosh13 wrote:

But then there's also software blurring in PP which is getting better.

Is there any specific software you have in mind when you say this function is getting better

I think I've seen some plug-ins discussed somewhere here that looked okay, and I played around a bit with PShop's lens blur filter.

Though I certainly wouldn't want to have to develop a style and process stacks and stacks of photos in PP.

And I think the latest Android camera software has some multi shot software blur.

Almost every recent smartphone does, the stock Android cameras one of the last to add said feature; i.e. different OEM had done something similar at a hardware or software level already. HTC went hardware with their dual sensor/lenses and in practice it produces one of the most fake looking effects... At a technical level the method Google's using with the stock camera app looks pretty elegant but the results are still pretty terrible. LG's approach is more subtle but more appealing too.

I'm not a snob by any means, I like A LOT of shots that come out of my phones, even from my Nexus 5 (and it's camera gets criticized a lot)... Those fake DoF effects have a long long way to go before they're anything more than a gimmick tho. At this point the use is questionable even for FB, unless you have pretty low standards and care more about the effect than any of it's side effects. PP post processing probably still produces much better results even without any depth mapping or any of the fancy new techniques that seek to automate/improve this.