Gyeong-il Kweon of Honam University in South Korea tells optics.org about his plans to market a new wide-angle lens for security applications. Optical researchers in South Korea have developed an ...

One of the lesser-known ways that camera manufacturers have been able to make digital cameras ever smaller and less expensive is by using in-camera software to correct for lens distortion on the fly.

With most wide-angle lenses, distortion is a way of life. Warped edges and a bulging center are often byproducts of a wide field of view, but Venus Optics created its new Laowa 12mm f/2.8 lens with a ...

Mocha Pro 3.1 is a free update of this planar tracking and rotoscoping software. (What "planar" means is that it can track whole surfaces and not just points - so if a "surface" moves partly out of ...

Using an ultrathin wafer of silicon and gold to focus lightwaves, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created a revolutionary new kind of camera lens that ...

SKRWT, the highly respected camera editing app from iOS, has finally arrived on Android. The app is a fairly straightforward but impressively featured keystone and lens distortion tool. Put simply, it ...

Progressive addition lenses (PALs) represent a significant advancement in corrective eyewear, utilising freeform technology to deliver a seamless optical transition between distance, intermediate and ...