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Nikon Explains How It Makes Lenses Smaller While Somehow Making Them Better https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/nikon-explains-how-it-makes-lenses-smaller-while-somehow-making-them-better/ #nikkorz70200mmf28vrsii #nikkorz2470mmf28sii #nikkorz400mmf28vrs #nikonzmount #Interviews #cpplus2026 #lensdesign #technology #Equipment #interview #nikkorz #optics #nikon

Nikon Explains How It Makes Lenses Smaller While Somehow Making Them Better

Lens design is a complex, delicate balance of competing ideals.

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Unofficial PetaPixel Bot Mar 8

Light and Photography: How Light Travels Through Your Lens https://petapixel.com/2026/03/08/light-and-photography-how-light-travels-through-your-lens/ #chromaticaberration #opticaldesign #Educational #aberrations #lensdesign #education #Lighting #lighting #physics #optics #light #Tips #lens

Light and Photography: How Light Travels Through Your Lens

How light travels through your lens and why it matters for your photography.

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cathill Dec 19

Why don't camera lenses have a vacuum in the optical path instead of air?
#optics #cameralenses #photography #lensdesign #vacuum #cameras

Zorz Studios Dec 12

How #Lomography brings 19th-century optics to photographers in 2025: https://zorz.it/CsrEB

#JeremyGray #LensDesign #LomographyPetzvalArt #OpticalDesign #PetzvalLenses #technology #video #optics

cathill Oct 10

Photographers are a gullible bunch who believe that lens design flaws give "character" instead of inaccurate image reproduction.
#optics #lensdesign #photographers #cameralenses #opticallenses #photography #cameras #opticaldefects #bokeh #swirlybokeh

cathill Sep 19, 2025

I don't understand why photographers spend so much money on standard lenses when a simple achromatic doublet is able to produce images that are significantly free of optical defects.
#cameralenses #cameras #photography #photographers #lensdesign #optics #achromats #achromaticdoublet #simplicity #frugality

cathill Sep 19, 2025

"Swirly bokeh" is an optical defect. Nothing to be proud of.
#bokeh #swirlybokeh #photography #photographers #optics #opticaldefects #lensdesign

Unofficial PetaPixel Bot Sep 8, 2025

How Lomography Brings 19th-Century Optics to Photographers in 2025 https://petapixel.com/2025/09/08/how-lomography-brings-19th-century-optics-to-photographers-in-2025/ #lomographypetzvalart #opticaldesign #Interviews #lensdesign #lomography #technology #Equipment #interview #petzval #design #lenses #movies #photo #video

How Lomography Brings 19th-Century Optics to Photographers in 2025

How Lomography preserved the swirly bokeh spirit of very old Petzval lenses.

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Hacker News May 23, 2025

Types of optical systems in a lens designer's toolbox (2020)

https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-design-forms/

#HackerNews #opticalsystems #lensdesign #technology #innovation #designtools

Optical Lens Design Forms: An Ultimate Guide to the types of lens design

This Guide is a birds-eye-view of all the optical systems and lens design forms out there, and will be an essential tool for any lens designer's toolbox.

A Pencil of Rays

fsolt Mar 26, 2025

Torch Lens Maker

https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker – Librería en Python para el diseño de elementos ópticos utilizando modelos de optimización con PyTorch

Torch Lens Maker

Differentiable geometric optics in PyTorch