| Sumario: | It is annoying enough to get family prints back from the developer only to find that many of them are blurred or under-exposed. Imagine how frustrating it must be when the images are of a valuable micro-machine whose intricate structure must be verified in minute detail if it is to enter production. Here, a blurry image can mean the difference between commercial success or failure. This is where a small company based in Boulder, Colorado, called CDM Optics, believes it has a role. By using a novel distorting lens and digital-signal processing, the firm can extract crisp images from situations in which an ordinary lens sees only a blur.
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