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Lytro has launched a software update for its Illum camera that features Focus Spread, a technology that allows photographers to pinpoint exactly where focus depth begins and ends in an image. With traditional cameras, photographers looking to achieve a background blur effect resort to a very shallow depth of field, severely limiting the focusable range to a narrow slice. A photo of two people might keep the person in the foreground in focus but blur the second person into the background when what the photographer wants is for both people to be in focus. Workarounds to this problem are hard to reproduce.…

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