Interesting result with Focus Magic Fix Motion-Blur

A young niece went bonkers over my GX7 yesterday (vs the family's big, heavy Nikon -- her words, not mine!) and proceeded to commandeer the camera and the 45-175 zoom (over which she went bonkers 2x) and take all sorts of pix. But light was getting low and she didn't pay attention to movement of subjects' heads at slow shutter speeds.

Just for fun, I tried correcting the resultant movement blur, and came up with a pretty useful result. Well, I thought it was pretty useful! Certainly all she and her friends want for their phones and tablets and it would make a reasonable A4 print, especially with a little more work.

Original @ 50%

Filtered for an 18 pixel movement. Shown @ 50%

The bodies of the girls were quite sharp (thanks OIS); they were just laughing, and chatting and moving their heads around a bit.

Not a perfect rendition (the next frame was actually quite sharp so I was just messing around), but this was an experiment to check the Q&D capabilities of the motion-blur filter which I do use occasionally. I used the cental girl as my reference to work out the amount and direction of movement -- 18 pixels @ 120 degrees. Obviously, that is not quite the best fit for the other two, but good enough.

I was using Focus Magic as a plug-in in PhotoLine editor. I use its sharpening filter quite often, one of the options alongside the excellent sharpening tools PhotoLine offers.