Focus AFTER shooting

According to the British science magazine New Scientist, "Blurry

snaps could be a thing of the past with the development of a digital

camera that refocuses photos after they have been taken. The camera

could be useful for action shots taken by sports photographers or

for CCTV surveillance cameras, which often produce fuzzy shots due

to poor lighting."

Via <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/2316216&tid=126&tid=152">slashdot</a>, you can see some <a href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/">examples of photos taken with this kind of equipment</a>. Barring some major technical advance, I don't see this kind of equipment coming into widespread use; from the <a href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/faq.html">FAQ</a>:

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Are you taking a 16MP camera and producing roughly 300x300 final images?

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Yes, the resolution of the final images is equal to the resolution of the microlens array, which is just under 300x300 in the prototype that we built.

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I'll be posting these and more on my new site: http://aslanivo.wordpress.com

While one camera-phone image was printed on average per month in 2004, one image is being printed every three months in 2005.

The entry megapixel level of new camera purchases has increased, with about half of all digital cameras sold now in the 5-Mpixel range and higher.

Women are buying most digital cameras. Women purchased 53% of all digital cameras sold from May to July this year. Women are more than tech savvy. They also demand reliable and intuitive products.

Another survey by estimates that 77% of mobile handsets will be camera phones by 2010.

Sales of digital cameras increased 25% from January through July this year compared to the same period in 2004. Also, sales of 35-mm cameras declined 32.9% in the same period this year.

Aslan, first, very nice homepage.<P><P>

<i>...Women are buying most digital cameras. Women purchased 53% of all digital cameras sold from May to July this year. Women are more than tech savvy. They also demand reliable and intuitive products...</i><P>

Woman are not tech freaks like men and they will not buy next release of the camera one year later<P><P>

<i>...Sales of digital cameras increased 25% from January through July this year compared to the same period in 2004...</i><P>

IMO this Christmas there wasnt the big run for digicams, market seems to get saturated and news arent that good that its a must to get, if there are news; people have heard about ISO and noise and small chips and dSLRs arent that cheap to throw away next year, not a long time ago a Canon 10D was up todate and now we wait for the successor of the successor