At NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, Adobe detailed a direction in photography.  With a plenoptic lens and advanced rendering software, a future you will have the ability to take a picture with a digital camera and change the precise area of focus after the image is taken.  As the post title exlaims, out-of-focus imagery be gone!

But how does it all work?  A plenoptic lens is made of hundreds of very tiny lenses placed together; it gets fitted between a camera’s standard lens and image sensor.  When you snap a picture with a plenoptic-aided camera, the captured photons are recorded from multiple perspectives, allowing for an “infinite” depth of field.  Transfer the data-filled image to your computer and a simple slider can be used to determine an exact area of focus within the image.

Watch Adobe’s presentation in the video above to see a demonstration of this future technology.

[Via LaptopMag]