Optics

Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA

Removing distortion with optical design

Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports

Good vibrations

Greg Blackman reports on the latest lens technology presented during Vision Stuttgart, including optics designed to withstand shock

Shining a light on lenses

Stemmer Imaging’s series of technology days included talks from various lens manufacturers. Here, we round up some of what was discussed at the event

Seeing the smart future

Greg Hollows, director of the Imaging Business Unit at Edmund Optics, looks at the growing divide between sensor technology and optical design, and how the imaging community can address this to build better vision systems

Rising to the resolution challenge

Larger sensors and smaller pixels are pushing image resolution higher, but can the lenses for machine vision cameras keep up? Lucy Goodchild van Hilten reports on maximising resolution through optics

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