More speculative camera tech, pt. II

On 09/10/2013 08:48, RichA wrote:
In the first part, we saw someone create was in essence was a "light pipe" though which an imaged was formed using a monocentric lens and fibre optics. Now this:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/...leLensImaging/

That paper is actually a pretty good demonstration of what is now
possible with state of the art publicly available deconvolution methods.

Unlike the Adobe fantasy "unblur" function announcement these look to
be real deconvolutions of genuine actual data as opposed to simulated
images of what it might be like if it actually worked.

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Martin Brown

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On 09/10/2013 08:48, RichA wrote:
In the first part, we saw someone create was in essence was a "light pipe" though which an imaged was formed using a monocentric lens and fibre optics. Now this:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/...leLensImaging/

That paper is actually a pretty good demonstration of what is now
possible with state of the art publicly available deconvolution methods.

Unlike the Adobe fantasy "unblur" function announcement these look to
be real deconvolutions of genuine actual data as opposed to simulated
images of what it might be like if it actually worked.

The thing that's bothering me about that paper is that I'm not seeing
any chromatic aberration in the originals, just blur. Their "simple
lens" looks like just that, a single lens, not an achromat, so I would
expect there to be a noticeable degree of chromatic aberration. And I
am not noting any difference in blur in the "originals" between the
center and the edges. Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my old age but
I'm smelling a rat.