It was 1/4/03 9:56 am, when bob marchant wrote:
> The as yet unnamed manufacturers claim to have produced a lens that
> expands on this technology using fractal algorithm design . Combined with
> some exceedingly complex capture software , this enables an image to be
> captured at several different focal lengths at the same time.
Bob
The pop music video directors are going to have a field day with this one.
> This means that we are now one step closer to that holy grail of the
> advertising photographer. We can shoot once and provide our art directors
> with an with a series of images with not only several different film
> curves and colour balances applied , but also with several different
> perspectives. Just think , if you bought several of these devices , you
> could also shoot from different angles simultaneaously.
Pop music video and commercial cinematographers already do this. There is a
rig that records from many angles using a battery of stills cameras. The
images are then strung into moving frames in post. But combining that with
the new fresnel/multi-focus point and multi-focal length lenses should send
the directors into orbit.
> BTW, the new technology goes by the name of Fractally Adjustable Unified
> Lens Technology.
>
> However all of the camera manufacturers I've contacted so far say that
> it's not their F.A.U.L.T.
Terrible, terrible name. It's so negative. Why not call it Fractally
Operable Optical Lens Duplicator? Much more descriptive, IMHO.
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