Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] Plenoptic lens work, Photoshop and the future of focus
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:58:12 -0400

It was 1987 and I was using a Mac SE, my first computer.
I spent $999 for a second mg of memory so I could run Photoshop without
turning all the extensions off.

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Mark William Rabiner
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> From: Greg Rubenstein <gcr910 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:55:28 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Plenoptic lens work, Photoshop and the future of focus
> 
> Group:
> 
> Read an article in a recent Businessweek about the work a guy at
> Adobe, Todor Georgiev, is doing with plenoptic lenses. Interesting
> stuff with the potential to change selective focus, depth of field
> and, in our world, bokeh. Actually seems as if it might make focus of
> any sort obsolete; a tough concept to wrap one's mind around.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2g92ubj
> 
> Also made me think of a movie, "No Way Out" (with Kevin Costner and
> others), in which a computer seems to run endlessly in attempt to
> sharpen an out-of-focus photo to the point where a murderer can be
> identified. Seemed quite outre at the time.
> 
> Greg Rubenstein
> 
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