LightPath's 75mm EFL lens features a large f/1.0 aperture for excellent light collection. This lens is optimized to be used with an uncooled microbolometer up to VGA resolution, producing an 8deg HFOV ...

As electronic devices get smaller, lighter, and thinner, the associated optics must do the same. Fortunately, some of the technologies of electronics are also applicable to optics, and vice versa, as ...

Ball Aerospace has shipped and delivered the large camera lens assembly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, which will be incorporated into the Large Synoptic Survey ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the optics and support structure, designated as the L1-L2 Lens Assembly, for the camera on ...

Apple on Tuesday was issued two patents covering different methods of attaching lenses and camera modules to a portable electronic device, including a magnetic solution that incorporates a motor for ...

Apple developed something called a tetraprism telephoto lens assembly for the iPhone 15 Pro Max‘s 5x periscope telephoto. While a 5x optical zoom is not anything new for its Android counterparts, the ...

In the constant battle to provide consumers the best smartphone camera, one area that Apple has yet to innovate is optical zoom, which could use a so-called "periscope lens." We explain what the ...