Researchers have demonstrated the first planar lens that works with high efficiency within the visible spectrum of light -- covering the whole range of colors from red to blue. The lens can resolve ...

Third-party lens makers have been helping photographers get the best out of their cameras. Companies like Viltrox, SG Image, Laowa, and 7Artisans are a few names that have been pushing the optical ...

Light of different colors travels at different speeds in different materials and structures. This is why we see white light split into its constituent colors after refracting through a prism, a ...

Light Lens Lab has introduced the 50mm f/1.5 "Z21" optic, which pays homage to one of the most revered and rare cine lenses in photography history: the P Angenieux Type S21 50mm f/1.5. Just recently, ...

AR and VR headsets of the future could have clearer, lighter, and wafer thin lenses, thanks to a new manufacturing process that uses nanotechnology to not only shrink the thickness of the lens, but ...

A new type of flat, ultrathin lens designed to be free of chromatic aberrations has been developed by researchers in the US. The device has a variety of potential applications, from ultralight imaging ...

(Nanowerk News) Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image. That's why high-power microscopes are so big and telephoto ...