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Bokeh = shallow depth of field effects

The author isn't the one confused.

Hi,

I am the author of the Lens Blur blog post and the sentence was indeed wrong as a result of multiple edits. Bokeh and shallow depth of field are indeed two different things. By Bokeh we mean that the blur is synthesized using a disk kernel, e.g. as opposed to a Gaussian Blur. The blog is now fixed.

Hey, is there any chance we can download the RAW data alongside the JPG file?

You can extract the computed depthmap, all-in-focus image, and focus settings from the XMP data of the jpeg. See

https://developers.google.com/depthmap-metadata/

for the depthmap format.

That is awesome! But I think he meant the RAW image that hasn't still been debayered or saved in a lossy 8bit format (jpg)

It made the news last year but I guess hasn't still landed? For post processing, the RAW is so much more useful than a jpg

http://connect.dpreview.com/post/2707133307/google-android-a...

Bokeh is the quality of the rendering of out of focus areas. It's not just making something out of focus (or creating shallow depth of field).

'Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".'

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