Shoot now, focus later

[MarkBarbieri]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS7usnHmNZ0&feature=player_embedded)looks pretty cool.

[ukcatfan]

I have heard about that before. It could be one of the technologies that make it into consumer cameras in the future. If I remember correctly though, it needs a lot of MPs to work. I think it was something like a 30MP sensor gives a 4MP end result image after processing.

[disneyboy2003]

I've got a WHOLE BUNCH of images that could use that program. A WHOLE BUNCH!!! They're all screaming "Please focus me!"

I hope they start marketing and selling that program. Or, I hope that Adobe notices this, buys it, and incorporates it into one of the (near) future versions of Photoshop. Pleeeeeeeez?

[ukcatfan]

I've got a WHOLE BUNCH of images that could use that program. A WHOLE BUNCH!!! They're all screaming "Please focus me!"

I hope they start marketing and selling that program. Or, I hope that Adobe notices this, buys it, and incorporates it into one of the (near) future versions of Photoshop. Pleeeeeeeez?

Unless this is something completely new, it does not work on an existing image. It requires a special camera that takes the image in a way that allows this to work. Again, if it is the same technology I saw before, most people would not use it much due to the amount of information it needs. I think it needed 8x the MPs. If that is the case, then even an 18MP would only be output as a 2MP end result. To get an end result 18MP shot you would need a 144MP sensor. So, while this is very interesting, I do not see it going mainstream anytime soon.

[saturndb]

cool concept

[photo_chick]

It does take a special camera, one with a square aperture, among other things.

It will end up in high end cameras... give it ten years.

You can do what this does now by constructing and rendering the image... but it's a very, very long and involved process and at that point it's not really photography anymore.