Awesome new tech being explored

[rasiel]

I just came across this article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=810

Since the de-blurring feature sounds like it would be a trivial addition in terms of manufacturing complexity I can see this being quickly adopted. After thinking about it in those cases where blur is caused by the camera's own movement while the shutter is open, yes, this would be correctable.

However, what if the camera is perfectly still and the subject is moving? On the frame the shifting subject erases information from the background which is irretrievable. I don't see how the sensor can make sense of the smearing image of the subject itself without distorting the background that was still during capture.

Ras

 

[bigowl]

Thanks for the link. The article sounds very interesting, but I agree with you, something is missing. For example what about vertical movement? They say they are moving the sensor side-to-side at varying speed. And it is not clear whether there is one set of data taken per exposure, or whether they are saving multiple data sets. And as you pointed out, portions of the background are being wiped out by the moving target. Lots of unanswered questions here.

 

[lightmagic]

Levin missed the most important thing that needs to be improved.: the wieght and size of long lenses. Instead of making them smaller and light, she added more to it!!! Digitally one would think that there should be a way to reduce the size of lenses. They reduced the cell phones in size almost to nothing, didn't they!
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[prodesma]

maybe i can just use the algorithm for my EXISTING pictures... i shoot on the nikon system and i don't have a single lens w/ VR. so, maybe it can fix every blurry image i've ever shot?

maybe i can e-mail her to write an algorithm for when i left my lens cap on too.

or for retrieving photos when i've gone out and shot w/o a CF card in my camera?

hey, we're really onto something here. LOL.

no, seriously... the fuji 3D camera technology, and this tech are interesting.

i've said for nearly a year and a half now... that we will soon have digital cameras that will auto-correct exposure for sujects in open shade while the sky is still bright blue... by 'sampling certain ranges of sky blue and dropping the exposure levels to 'match' the foreground subjects... and prolly have 'panning' technology that will allow an average shooter to use 1/5 sec shutter and pan a moving car or motorcycle and get 'perfect focus' every time. right now my keeper rate is prolly one in thirty on a good day dragging to 1/6 sec.

smile shutter, HP's 'thinning' tech. anti-blink. omg. pre-shot, records a shot before you shoot. (huh?). some of this stuff is hard to believe, eh? built-in HDR mode, panoramic mode. but it surely can have its place, i s'pose. like fuji's 3D camera technology... i can only imagine model makers (like architectural models) and architecture photogs and land/site planners and surveyors would greatly benefit.

the anti-blur... wow. kinda cool. in a geek-ish way.

alright, so what does that technology do to this image of mine?



cheers.

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[Glen Barrington]

It doesn't sound anywhere close to being marketable, or even practical. I mean a grid of lenses placed over the regular lens?

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[Scales USA]

Levin missed the most important thing that needs to be improved.: the wieght and size of long lenses. Instead of making them smaller and light, she added more to it!!! Digitally one would think that there should be a way to reduce the size of lenses. They reduced the cell phones in size almost to nothing, didn't they!
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Sky my open Mind.
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There is no law in physics stating that a lens must be a certain size. New telephoto lenses continue to be made smaller and lighter.

It is entirely feasible to substantially shrink long telephoto lenses by using simpler optics and making corrections in-camera, and camera makers are starting to do that.

 

[lightmagic]

I don't know, no one knows yet. What we know now as "law" of physics may not be there tomorrow. Our knowledges are limited as far as I KNOW it will be so as long as humans are around. Limitaition and yet continuing progress.

Levin missed the most important thing that needs to be improved.: the wieght and size of long lenses. Instead of making them smaller and light, she added more to it!!! Digitally one would think that there should be a way to reduce the size of lenses. They reduced the cell phones in size almost to nothing, didn't they!
--
The Lightmagician
Sun is my eye
Winds my breaths
Sky my open Mind.
http://www.lightmagical.com

There is no law in physics stating that a lens must be a certain size. New telephoto lenses continue to be made smaller and lighter.

It is entirely feasible to substantially shrink long telephoto lenses by using simpler optics and making corrections in-camera, and camera makers are starting to do that.

--
The Lightmagician
Sun is my eye
Winds my breaths
Sky my open Mind.
http://www.lightmagical.com