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Jan 4, 2023 14:22:24   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
rsellas wrote:
Best App for fixing out of focus picture


It depends how out of focus you're talking about. Topaz Sharpen AI can be very useful for soft, blurry, and out of focus images if the problem is not too extreme. I believe there is a free download period so you can test it before purchasing.

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Jan 4, 2023 14:52:58   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
MrPhotog wrote:
Actually, NASA had such software running on a super computer at the time of the Apollo moon missions. It was used with the images brought back by the Lunar landing crews.

A super computer of that vintage would be comparable to a 1992 486-66 desktop, and that has been eclipsed many times since then. Todays laptops are more powerful.

As I recall, The theory was that by knowing the focal length of the lens the various circles of confusion ( blurred areas) around each point could be corrected.

It worked then, and since it was funded by tax dollars, the design is open for public use. I’d be surprised if this ( or similar tech) has not been picked up, and enhanced in the past 40 years.
Actually, NASA had such software running on a supe... (show quote)

I have not heard of that? If they had such a program why would the technology not be incorporated into other products today? Will you please cite your source for this information?

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Jan 4, 2023 14:57:10   #
rsellas Loc: Laguna Beach,Ca.
 
Thanks

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Jan 4, 2023 15:07:06   #
Mustang1
 
If you are having difficulties focusing with your camera, send it to me. I will conduct a 5 to 7 year analysis on its focusing modes.

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Jan 4, 2023 15:52:11   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Consider the <Delete> key. It's free.

Consider the ideas in this post, also all free: How to obtain sharp images in digital photography

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Jan 4, 2023 16:09:03   #
Mustang1
 
The camera is totally logical, not emotional. One must learn what the camera requires to obtain a sharp image.
Compose first. Place your desired image into the viewfinder. Do not use Live View. To focus, press halfways on the shutter button to focus. Once you have focus, maintain pressure on the shutter button, return to your original composition and press the shutter button completely.

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Jan 4, 2023 16:14:36   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
On1 also has a good sharpening AI. Nothing works if your image is too far out of focus. A little camera shake can be resolved, though.

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Jan 4, 2023 16:22:16   #
MrPhotog
 
JD750 wrote:
I have not heard of that? If they had such a program why would the technology not be incorporated into other products today? Will you please cite your source for this information?


I read about thus in ( probably) Popular Photography in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. I’m not sure I could find that article.

Let me see if I can find any more on it.

While searching I tried googling a topic ‘ Fix out-of-focus photos online free’ and hot lots of potential hits on software that may be of interest to the original poster.

Here is (older than I expected) article from Jet Propulsion Labs (1966).

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/computer-process-brightens-surveyor-moon-pictures

I believe what I read was about a later process, written several years later, but this may be a pioneering event.

And a bit more on computer processing the film images from those years. This fone in 2006.
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/amp

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Jan 4, 2023 17:27:57   #
Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington
 
Frank T wrote:
A little out if focus, try Topaz
A lot out if focus. Call it art and say you did it on purpose.



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Jan 4, 2023 19:42:15   #
Sakwes Loc: Peace River, Alberta, Canada
 
I use "focus magic" by Acclaim Softwas Inc.

I have to use something, My camera isn't working correctly, a new one is on the way, but in the mean time I don't want to miss any oppertunities and that means using focus correction software.

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Jan 4, 2023 19:48:12   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
MrPhotog wrote:
Actually, NASA had such software running on a super computer at the time of the Apollo moon missions. It was used with the images brought back by the Lunar landing crews.

A super computer of that vintage would be comparable to a 1992 486-66 desktop, and that has been eclipsed many times since then. Todays laptops are more powerful.

As I recall, The theory was that by knowing the focal length of the lens the various circles of confusion ( blurred areas) around each point could be corrected.

It worked then, and since it was funded by tax dollars, the design is open for public use. I’d be surprised if this ( or similar tech) has not been picked up, and enhanced in the past 40 years.
Actually, NASA had such software running on a supe... (show quote)


But that software was written long ago, and the lenses it works with are the lenses in use by NASA at that time. Three custom 70-millimeter Hasselblad data cameras. Two with 60mm lenses and one with a 500mm lens.

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Jan 4, 2023 21:44:23   #
MrPhotog
 
robertjerl wrote:
But that software was written long ago, and the lenses it works with are the lenses in use by NASA at that time. Three custom 70-millimeter Hasselblad data cameras. Two with 60mm lenses and one with a 500mm lens.


Yeah. Time marches on and technology changes. About 30 years later NASA was licensing their image enhancement techniques. Here is an article from 20 years ago:

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_6.html

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Jan 4, 2023 21:45:54   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
MrPhotog wrote:
I read about thus in ( probably) Popular Photography in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. I’m not sure I could find that article.

Let me see if I can find any more on it.

While searching I tried googling a topic ‘ Fix out-of-focus photos online free’ and hot lots of potential hits on software that may be of interest to the original poster.

Here is (older than I expected) article from Jet Propulsion Labs (1966).

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/computer-process-brightens-surveyor-moon-pictures

I believe what I read was about a later process, written several years later, but this may be a pioneering event.

And a bit more on computer processing the film images from those years. This fone in 2006.
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/amp
I read about thus in ( probably) Popular Photograp... (show quote)


Interesting!

Thank you.

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Jan 5, 2023 05:25:52   #
kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy
 
MrPhotog wrote:
Actually, NASA had such software running on a super computer at the time of the Apollo moon missions. It was used with the images brought back by the Lunar landing crews.

A super computer of that vintage would be comparable to a 1992 486-66 desktop, and that has been eclipsed many times since then. Todays laptops are more powerful.

As I recall, The theory was that by knowing the focal length of the lens the various circles of confusion ( blurred areas) around each point could be corrected.

It worked then, and since it was funded by tax dollars, the design is open for public use. I’d be surprised if this ( or similar tech) has not been picked up, and enhanced in the past 40 years.
Actually, NASA had such software running on a supe... (show quote)


You can sharpen as much as you want with deconvolution, but past a certain point the artifacts are so great as to render the image very surreal. There is a threshold past which the s/w can only "guess".

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Jan 5, 2023 06:08:22   #
bart11
 
rsellas wrote:
Best App for fixing out of focus picture


I am quite impressed and satisfied with the Easy Photo Unblur of Softorbits.
Couple of cons are the ugly and inovenient GUI and the bad communication with the customer service, may be I am very strict with them.
Once installed, I was very happy with the results. I have saved alot of photographs.

https://www.softorbits.net/unblur-photos/

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