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.

We worked with the folks at Adobe to create some useful tips to help novice and pro photographers efficiently use Lightroom. Today's tip focuses on lens distortion and correction. Regardless of how ...

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 ...

Physicists in the US have made the first ultrathin flat lens. Thanks to its flatness, the device eliminates optical aberrations that occur in conventional lenses with spherical surfaces. As a result, ...

The miniaturization of electronics, in particular the electronic sensors on which digital images are captured, has seen digital cameras shrink to such a degree that they are now standard equipment on ...

Moment has taken high-end, multi-element lens design and brought it to the iPhone. Going up squarely against Olloclip, Moment’s two new lenses promise “no” distortion, minimal chromatic aberration and ...

For those who are after the ultimate in stills optics, Sigma has just announced a new 14-24mm addition to the Art lens lineup that makes claim to have almost zero distortion. Making claim to have made ...

When it comes to wide-angle lenses, landscapes are usually the first subject that springs to mind, but there are a few other subjects which work quite well with the distortion wides create. Obviously, ...

A Princeton-led research team develops three-dimensional "metamaterials," which they hope will someday produce lenses that eliminate image distortion For years, researchers have struggled to find an ...