Universal focus multiplanar camera

Conventional cameras and other optical instruments produce images upon one plane only. Objects at differing ranges from the lens of such cameras cannot appear upon that plane in-focus simultaneously, and the operator, hence the viewer, is obliged to choose one primary plane of interest in which the major subject lies; all other objects at other ranges will be out of focus. The invention described produces photographic images that are in-focus at all ranges. This is achieved by dividing the original scene into two or more images focussed upon different ranges, and eliminating from each image those parts that are out-of-focus. The remaining in-focus parts of each image are then reconstituted into a single image for presentation. The elimination of blurred parts may be done by comparison of one sub-image with another, or by the subjective intervention of an operator using a mathmatical support system. The images described may be applied to still or motion photography, film or electronic.