Picture enhancement that works…?
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This could be interesting.
“Best in Show,” 2004 PMA - DxO Photo Pro
By Dave Etchells, The Imaging ResourceEvery year after the PMA show, people always ask me what I thought was the most interesting/exciting product I saw there. This year, the easy answer is DO Labs’ DxO Photo Pro software, an amazingly powerful tool/technology for correcting optical distortion and artifacts in digicam images.
Worth a look for the “exclusive images” — there does seem to be something to this software.I’m eager to hear more about it once there’s something shipping.
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Posted to General Rants • 2004.02.20 (Fri) • 21:41
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Posted by royger 2004.02.20, 23:41
Looks very interesting, specially for those like me who don’t have an expensive camera.
Posted by kenteroo 2004.02.21, 12:20
As someone who uses a very cool (and expensive, yet very buggy) french software to make panoramas from my digital images I am extremely interested in this technology but it raises some very interesting issues. Two are: 1) All lenses suffer from some distortion. No one knows exactly what and why better than those who invent and manufacture them them yet Nikon/Canon et al have shown NO interest in building in software compensation. Nor have they published the specs for the exact distortion found in each of their lenses. I would be a lot more exited if someone like Zeiss were partnering with DXO. 2) As nationalistic as it may sound the French are not known for their software support expertise. Getting this right would take a company capable of digesting a raft of feedback in a positive way.
Hopeful in Sunnyvale,
Kent
Posted by toastboy 2005.04.30, 21:47
kenteroo , don’t fly on an Airbus jet any time soon: their software is French!
:->
DXO does look interesting, but their pricing structure is taking the micky. 139 dollars for the engine and ONE lens module is too much. Still, stitching a panorama ought to be a lot easier once it’s applied its non-uniform distortion correction.
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