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Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology (petapixel.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Metalenses are a relatively fringe optical technology — at least, they were. Until now, it has been largely pursued by startups and scientists but that is changing as Canon has jumped into the fray and not only makes them but also produces the equipment necessary to manufacture them.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this currently limited by lens diameter? It seems it would be - so huge glasses would be more forgiving in this sense?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mainly it's number of lenses.
High quality camera lenses have like 10-20 lenses, while glasses have ... 1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sir, that's called a monocle.