[sudosysgen]

Well yes but you're still going to need a sensor as large as the aperture of the lens you want to simulate, which makes it a non-starter for phones.

[foo_barrio]

Yea, this type of image recording has huge compromises but I personally find it really cool.

[sudosysgen]

So do I! If I had a bit more photography budget I'd try them out.

Also, I'm excited about cameras with dual/quad pixel AF, that are kind of a hybrid between lightfield and traditional cameras. I wonder what kind of sorcery one would be able to do with the light field data in those cameras!