1. A digital image acquisition apparatus, comprising: an image acquisition sensor coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images; an image store for storing images acquired by said sensor; a motion detector for causing said sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring said image exceeds a threshold; a controller for selectively transferring said image acquired by said sensor to said image store; a motion extractor for determining motion parameters of a selected image stored in said image store; an image re-constructor for correcting a selected image with associated motion parameters; and an image merger for merging a selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene and corrected by said image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of said scene.