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BREAKTHROUGH IN PROFESSIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
New Digital Camera/Software Package from Sweden produces Shots
with Infinite Depth of Field
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BREAKTHROUGH IN PROFESSIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
New Digital Camera/Software Package from Sweden produces Shots
with Infinite Depth of Field
The new, patented FocOz® digital camera and
software package launched by Scandinavian Nightvision AB of SE-181 56
Lidingö, Sweden takes the next major step in professional photography. It
enables the operator to produce high quality photos with an infinite depth of
field - i.e. compositions in which the whole scene is in optimum focus, from
the closest foreground objects to those on the horizon.
The FocOz
camera (Fig. 1) incorporates a newly developed unit with its own memory for
storing focus settings as well as a microprocessor for automatic focus control.
A 5 Megapixel sensor takes a series of differently focused shots at 0.3 second
intervals - three for most compositions including moving targets, and up to
eight shots for still life subjects. The photographer chooses the focus
settings.
The sequence of images is downloaded to a computer using a
USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface. The FocOz software selects the best parts
of the individual frames and merges them, like a mosaic, into a final
composition with superior depth of field (see Figs. 2a, b and c). FocOz
software is designed to operate on Windows 2000 Professional and XP
Professional systems.
Portrait, Product, Advertising, News and
Nature Photography
FocOz technology has many benefits for
professional photographers and advanced amateurs alike. For example, at press
conferences it is now possible to show several of the principal participants in
focus on the same photo, regardless of their distance from the camera. The same
applies to group photography in a studio - the subjects can be at random
distances from the camera, yet all are portrayed in the best focus - which
constitutes a breakthrough in the art.
For product photography, every
little detail of a scene or a whole range of products can be sharply in focus;
in advertising, it is simple to produce extreme supermacros and other 'special
effects' with features in focus from a few centimetres to infinity.
In
nature photography, for the first time, this new technology can be used to
portray not only small plants or animals in detail (macro photo), but also to
reveal the minutiae of their habitat or environment just as clearly in the same
picture.
Using the software
FocOz software is easy to
use and runs on high-end computers with up-to-date versions of Windows. Press
the "New Project" button, select a name for the set of images and other
information needed to produce a FocOz image and a project file is created to
store the data. A standard open-image dialogue window is used to select the
differently focused images. To create a FocOz image, simply press the "Process"
button and wait for 2 or 3 minutes (speed depends on the PC's performance)
until the processed FocOz image can be viewed.
Hardware
requirements
Because image merging involves heavy-duty calculations
and data processing, the hardware must be of a high standard, including an
Intel P4/2GHz or AMD XP2000+ or faster processor, 512 MB of RAM or more, a true
colour 24bit XGA (1024x 768) display or better, and an available parallel
line-printer port for the hardware key.
Background to Scandinavian
Nightvision
Scandinavian Nightvision was founded in the 1980s by
Sven-Åke Afsenius, a Swedish inventor with a degree in optics, to
develop, manufacture and market high-tech image-intensifier nightvision
instruments which have been supplied to the Swedish armed forces and to Simrad
Optronics AS in Norway amongst others. Both the FocOz camera and software are
covered by patents.
Further information from:
Scandinavian Nightvision AB
Ugglevägen 12
S-181 56 Lidingö
Sweden
www.focoz.com
Note to Editors: We strongly recommend a visit to the
FocOz website where a wide choice of illustrations can be found as well as
further technical information.
Captions:
(Fig. 1) The FocOz
digital camera and software enables the operator to produce high quality
photographs with an infinite depth of field.
(Fig. 2a) To bring
together a small item in the foreground and a large object in the background on
one picture is a general characteristic of macro photography with the FocOz
camera.
(Fig. 2b) FocOz technology enables a combination of a close up
object in focus and a portrait.
(Fig. 2c) The yellow car is a toy, just
20 cm from the lens. The other car is 'real', about 8 or 10 metres from the
camera.
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