>>2975638People shat on Lytro and their gimmick because the only way they provided to look at a light field photograph was with some gay-ass web browser plugin. Like it was literally 2000.
Obviously their technology is so extra secret and proprietary that they can't even file for patents and then standardize the file format & processing methods. Consequently, no support in Lightroom, Darktable, or anything in general. Not even a Lytro-branded tool that'd turn a light field capture into a regular NEF (or some such) at certain camera settings.
This latter bit in particular suggests to me that the Lytro was a total gimmick, and that the web browser plug-in uses demo scene trickery to hide how this "light field" photography doesn't actually do all it's marketed to, namely, allow the photographer to fine-focus freely afterward.
Also the lenses were extremely slow. No future for a company that doesn't overcharge for glass; even Sigma makes clone lenses for other companies.
