Editorial: The times they are 'a changing

Staff · Issue 12, Apr/May 2003 · pp. 5

5 Editorial The times they are ‘a changing Don’t get me wrong - I’m all in favour of progress but I heard something recently which has made me wonder where it’s all going. There is a new groundbreaking technology which claims to eliminate depth of field. Now you can either re- read the last sentence as many times as you like until the enormity of this capability sinks in or I can help emphasise it with simple block capitals. THEY ARE DOING AWAY WITH DEPTH OF FIELD. Now I know this is the April/May issue of UwP which should be available on or around April 1st 2003 but I can assure you that this is definitely not an April fool. Go to http:// www.colorado.edu/isl/intimages/ 3coloredf.html to see and example or to http:// www.dpreview.com/news/0303/ 03031803wavefrontcoding.asp for some more information. I must confess when I first learnt of this I was impressed to think that macro shots coul…