This after noon I spent a couple of hours on a rescue job. A client supplied a set of images taken of his late mother, but due to a camera operator error they were all out of focus. Hence time spent trying to get a degree of sharpness into each image. If you're familiar with Apple's photo editing application, Aperture, you'll know this has a solid set of sharpening tools. You can sharpen the whole image or you can "paint" sharpness into an area of your image.
So, switch off USM in Silverfast, scan the negatives, then load them into Aperture. Finally yielding 12 images where the subject is acceptably sharp, and that area of the image is isolated with the background slightly unfocused. Then I was reminded of this - the Lytro field camera.
This is a special device, it's a camera that doesn't focus. It is a revolution in photography.
I won't try to describe the camera - just go to lytro.com to see it - but it looks different and the resulting image can be focused at any given point in the image. I don't mean finally, you can post the image on a website or email it and the observer can adapt focus as they wish. A truly brilliant idea.
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