Shoot a red laser at a couple of non-linear crystals to split the photons into a red/infrared entangled pair. Now, send the infrared ones through the object and into the other crystal while you divert the red ones to a screen without touching the object. As you can no longer determine which infrared photon belongs to what entangled pair the information they ones had is now contained in the red photons instead - and an image of the object appears on the screen.
http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldu...
Who the hell needs magic when there's quantum physics.
You send light from cristal A to the object and then on to cristal B. You then construct the image using light from both cristals. The specific spookiness is only apparent when you try and track an individual photon.
Photon number is conjugate to phase, whereas to improve resolution you need to know phase very precisely, so the uncertainty in (and therefore the number of) photons goes up.
If the idea is getting targeted bits of information about an object, as in whether a feature is present or absent, the very low photon image might meet the need.
However, with photography as art, the requirements for image resolution would be much higher, much more similar to the multi-photon image examples.
So it would appear mileage varies: the minimal photon images suit the minimalist domain, but an ordinary high-resolution image would require many more photons/pixel to get the expected result.
