Focus Magic

Tutorials, questions, demos, questionable images ,,,

Moderator: Moderators

Forum rules
Please ensure that you have a meaningful location included in your profile. Please refer to the FAQ for details of what "meaningful" is.

Focus Magic

Postby gleff on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:51 am

I just stumbled across this program and decided to try it out on some of my photo's.. Wow.. it worked wonders.. Has anyone else used it? I realise you can do the same in photoshop but this just saves so much time :)

http://www.focusmagic.com/

Geoff
http://www.gleff.com
_________________
D70, 18-70 kit , 80-400VR, 24-120VR, Sigma 10-20, SB800, Benro A328, KB-2 Ballhead
User avatar
gleff
Senior Member
 
Posts: 502
Joined: Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:49 pm
Location: Chatswood, NSW - Nikon D70

Postby Yi-P on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:46 am

Looks interesting, but I think it only saves focus from a close distance DOF.

Will have to try that out with a OOF subject from 85/1.4 @ f/1.4 8)
User avatar
Yi-P
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3579
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:12 am
Location: Sydney -- Ashfield

Postby Matt. K on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:47 pm

I am very sceptical. They claim ' Focus Magic reverses the formula by which an image got blurred. "......well, there is no formula involved when the image got blurred. So what the hell are they talking about? You cannot retrieve information that was not there to begin with. You can only second guess. And that's not going to cut it for forensics.
Regards

Matt. K
User avatar
Matt. K
Former Outstanding Member Of The Year and KM
 
Posts: 9980
Joined: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:12 pm
Location: North Nowra

Postby joey on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:55 pm

I use it as plug-in in PhotoShop. It works well on some images such as landscapes, architecture etc More often than not – it doesn’t work. In fact, it makes it worse when processing the images with fine details such as portraits etc.
joey
Member
 
Posts: 266
Joined: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:48 pm
Location: Prospect, Adelaide

Postby losfp on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:34 pm

Well, it certainly looks like incentive to get the focus right to begin with, right? ;)
User avatar
losfp
Senior Member
 
Posts: 1572
Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:45 pm
Location: Quakers Hill, Sydney

Postby Justin on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:47 pm

looking at the samples, it looks similar to what happens if you over do noise reduction and sharpening. Useful forensic tool perhaps.

It's an interesting concept that if focus = noise then it is possible to resolve.

Reminds me of a story I read about japanese manga. A lot of them have all of the juicy bits blurred out and a guy came up with an algorithm which reversed the blurring... lol
D3 | 18-200VR | 50:1.4 | 28:2.8 | 35-70 2.8 | 12-24 f4
picasaweb.google.com/JustinPhotoGallery
"We don't know and we don't care"
User avatar
Justin
Senior Member
 
Posts: 1089
Joined: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:32 pm
Location: Newtown, Sydeny


Return to Post Processing

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 30 guests

cron