Has anyone heard of a multi-focus lens that is multiple lens' put together?

Question

I once saw in a technology magazine a preview of a lens that had many smaller lens' built into so that way it could focus on the entire picture and get everything, no matter the distance, at a perfect focus. It was at least 10 months ago that I saw this. I think it was a Canon but I am not sure. I tried searching for it on the internet and couldn't find anything relevant. Has anyone else heard of this and know where to find more info about it?

Answer 1

Not by Canon (or any other camera manufacturer) but there are a few R&D projects looking into this. Here's what Stanford is up to:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/20...

It's a bit more complex than getting everything in focus, of course. Any $50 point & shoot can do that. (In fact, on this site I'm used to questions on how to make the background blurry ;-)

Answer 2

The recent media coverage was of a hardware/software combination from Adobe.