Lenses
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Lensbaby has announced a new three-in-one creative lens for mirrorless cameras. The rotating optic allows users to switch between Lensbaby’s Twist, Velvet, and Sweet creative effects without having to swap lenses.
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The new M.Zuiko digital ED 25-mm F1.2 pro and 12-100-mm F4.0 IS pro are the latest examples of Olympus’s efforts to offer lenses that provide greater image stability, enhanced resolution, and more creativity for both professional and advanced amateur photographers.
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Perhaps above all else, the smartphone camera triumphs for capturing the drunken antics of our friends. With the simplest of additions, though, our phones can be used for capturing a world so small that it is barely visible to the human eye.
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Researchers have developed a flexible sheet camera which could turn any surface into a camera. The project uses elastic optics and may lead to the development of roll out capture devices which could be used to cover everyday objects, or flexible cameras which are bent to take in a new field of view.
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The Daguerreotype Achromat Art Lens is the latest vintage-inspired lens from Lomography. Currently on Kickstarter, where it’s already secured its funding target several times over, the lens is a modern reworking of the world’s first photographic optic lens from 1839, but now for your DSLR.
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Scientists have created the world’s thinnest lens which is just one two-thousandth the thickness of a human hair. The 6.3 nm thick lens is said to open the door to the development of flexible computer displays, along with a revolution in miniature cameras.
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Engineers have developed a new type of thin, flat, and ultralight lens which can still bend light to a single point like traditional lenses. The development could see future cameras use paper-thin lenses rather than bulky protruding optics.
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A team from the Swinburne University of Technology are developing a graphene microlens one billionth of a meter thick that can take sharper images of objects the size of a single bacterium
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Zeiss is set to join the iPhone accessory market with three lenses which have been developed in partnership with ExoLens. The lenses include a wide-angle, a telephoto and a macro.
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Sigma has announced a line of filters which use a newly-developed Clear Glass Ceramic material to offer increased protection to your lenses. The new glass, which is produced using a special heat treatment, makes the WR Ceramic Protector filters thinner and lighter, while also being stronger.
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One of the world’s rarest camera lenses, a fish-eye which can see behind itself, is set to be sold at auction where it could fetch up to US$50,000. The Nikon Fisheye Nikkor F5.6 6.2-mm SAP is one of only three that have ever been made.
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A new fully-adjustable synthetic eye lens from the University of Leeds, and made from liquid crystal, is designed to surgically replace long-sighted lenses in the human eye.
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