Friday, January 09, 2026
This experimental camera can focus on everything at once
The Verge: A camera lens, historically, can only focus on one thing at a time, just like the human eye. That could be a thing of the past, though, thanks to a breakthrough lens technology developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that can bring every part of a scene into sharp focus, capturing finer details across the entire image, no matter the distance.
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This is really great to see. But as some who's been into the photography world. I question just how valuable a technology like this really is. From what I've read in the article. It seems that the user of this lens would have to take time away from getting photographs in order to "decide" what parts of the image they don't want in focus. That's swell. It gives a ton of freedom to what the lens can achieve a good focus on without needing to be say a certain focal length or capable of opening with a wide enough aperture. But the problem here is the time. Especially if you are shooting fast action. Are you supposed to tell the camera every single time you want a certain part of your image to be out of focus? If this was automated. How accurate would it be. It really just seems like the creators of this just made a manual focus lens. It seems to be so much more work than just using a standard lens.
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