Hacker News Reader

Maybe not physically but novel sensors (depth sensors, multi-camera arrays) and image processing algorithms make it possible to simulate these effects to a degree that would satisfy most users.

"The best camera is the camera you have with you."

I sometimes carried a digital camera (or before that a film camera) on vacations. I carry a phone with a camera everywhere I go.

A small lense + depth awareness (via IR array, for example) can produce beautiful virtual bokeh, on par with $2000 lenses. All cellular phones will have this capability in the near future.

Instagram became hugely popular by letting people take pictures that were already kinda crappy and crap them up even further with a variety of noisy, wince-inducing novelty filters before passing them along. So subtlety and nuance are qualities that most people who take pictures have already left way, way behind.