georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

WOW! That solves the depth of field problem, huh?! It takes a little playing around with. At first it is just a blurry picture. But as you select different areas, you can zoom in. The skyscrapers in the distance are brought into sharp focus. Select the blurred raindrops and they pop into focus. I think it is amazing. But you can't hang it on the wall, so it more or less a novelty item with limited use.

RMM Loc: Suburban New York

How long before they come out with software that lets you select any version of the image and transfer it to a TIFF or JPEG? Once there, all the tools currently available work, and you can hang the results on the wall. Consider: They already produce an image you can display on screen.

Patrick1958 Loc: Pensacola FL

I realy do appreciate what you said here, it has opened my eyes more to digital photography. Your right, there is still alot of skill and you are not required to use the imaging programs. This is what I wanted, good honest discussion since I am still new at this. God bless :)

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

Yes, but it would have to be a digital screen hanging on the wall. and you would need interactive devices to move a cursor. A print on paper or canvas cannot be interactive, and that is what this is all about.; Once you get a screen on the wall, you have to have software to hold the file information, and you have to consider a power supply just to see the image. File information is just digital. it can be lost(unless you forget where you put it!) Once that happens the image is lost. I have a whole bunch of images on zip discs. Once that technology changed, I lost a lot of images, because computers nowadays do not have slots for zipdiscs. A print on paper cannot be lost. There was a lot of new art done on floppy discs and stored by museums, but they don't have equipment any more to access it anymore. The art was lost. Remember 8 Track music cassettes? I though they had a better sound, but nowadays they are useless. I have a vast VCR library that will go extinct since the technology is switching to DVD. There is no replacement for a permanent, made of solid matter art, that when made with archival materials and a little care will last centuries. Can you imagine digging up a Michaelangelo on a plastic disc in a future which may not use plastic discs anymore?
However, I do like this new stuff, I think it is neat! Maybe someday they will dig up thin archival plastic sheet with archival solar panels, when light hits it a photo appears, you touch it and it zoom into focus on a detail....but I am also a big science fiction fan, most of that stuff never happens.

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

1 the consumer has to want it although there are times when the consumer can be convinced of that.
2&3 not sure
4 this is the first thing that came to mind when I read your first statement and I think it would be cool to move within a hologram if that is even possible.

the camera in the link looks like a novelty to me.

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

I was wondering if Holograms would come up. 30 years ago I did a school project with a Hologram, it was on a transparent plastic sheet and came with World Book Encyclopedia's Science Yearbook.
It was truly a 3D image, with a magnifying glass in front of a chess piece on a chessboard. By moving your head to the side of the image you could look around the side of the magnifying glass and see the chesspiece normal. Moving your head again to the center of the image and you were seeing the chesspiece through the magnifying glass. I was fascinated, what would this mean to the future of art and photography? Credit Card security logo's, 30 yrs later, thats all. As for my reservations about this new fascinating development, you won't be able to crank one out on your printer any time soon!

billybob40

CHECK THIS OUT.....
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RMM Loc: Suburban New York

I avoided the original, though I ultimately saw it, and thought it was awful. 3D won't help.

ianhargraves1066 Loc: NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Florida

The oly movie I ever saw in 3D was one of the first it was called "The Charge at Feather River" it was awful.

One movie I think would have made a good 3Der was BULLIT with Steve McQueen.

I am not a great movie fan, but one I ahd a kind of interest was "Blow Up" and I had worked as an apprentice in the studio that the film used as a setting. Great Photo move. I nearly died on my first day, I went into the studio and there was a big boobed blonde, sitting a trapeze bar, back combing her pubic hair.

She was'nt fazed, I nearly died of embarresment.

I well remember her name, Misty Creamcheese.

Ian

RMM Loc: Suburban New York

OK, you had me going until the very end. NOBODY is named "Misty Creamcheese." ;)