DSLR Sensor in P&S

[gheil]

I can imagine something like that. Might work quite well as a PnS, too -- with the near-infinite depth of field, no need for a focusing mechanism. I have a feeling, though, that nothing comes for free: there will certainly be trade-offs to be made in this approach.

The trade off for the Wavefront approach is noise. Something like 10x more DOF for 2X more noise. Having a small sensor Minolta A1 and loving the low light capabilities ... i am getting to love the noise too. Wiping it out removes the sharpness. We forget sometimes that nerves actually thrive on noise.

And don't forget that a technique like that only works for subjects that sit still for you. Forget candids of people, action of most any kind, etc.

Hah! i was just at a panel on ADHD taking pics (no flash) of ADHD panelists. 90% of pics instant throwaways! Talk about animated speakers! But sometimes that motion blur adds a lot, so i keep it up

One other thing we throw away a lot of is spectral information. If one could detect luminance and spectra simultaneously (eg the Foveon prism approach) we could use light more efficiently. Photons are full of information we hardly tap. Timeing we have talked about a lot, if we could just utilize all the information that is out there, we would find we actually don't need so much.

Anyway this thread is almost full. Blue sky is so much fun, we should do it more often
greg