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Traditional lenses are limited to sharpening one focal plane (the distance between an object and your camera) at a time, blurring everything behind or in front of that object. Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mellon University
A camera lens, historically, can only focus on one thing at a time, just like the human eye.
