Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From a theoretical engineering standpoint, it is certainly possible to build a digital camera that comes with enough compute power inside to do this: Before you take a photograph that matters to you, take a photograph under similar conditions of a test pattern provided with the camera. The camera knows what the test pattern is supposed to look like, and generates, automatically, the plugin software that will correct the image recorded by the camera. It will offer you the option of storing that precomputed plugin inside the camera, so that the next time you use that lens at or near that zoom setting, it will use that previously-generated software to do the image correction. No need to have this processing take place anywhere outside the camera. On the other hand, if the camera didn't have that software in it, you could produce a Photoshop plugin that did the same thing. You would calibrate the plugin by feeding it an uncorrected digital image of that test pattern. The plugin would set itself up to transform images according to what it sees there. You would then process real pictures using those same settings. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html