Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
fascinating. maybe in the future all lenses will be pancake lenses. will there be enough syrup to go around? ;-) G On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/flat-lens-offers-perfect-image What a neat

Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread Bulent Celasun
Wow! Seems to be the end of (camera / lens) optics as we know it! Bulent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun

Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread John Sessoms
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/flat-lens-offers-perfect-image What a neat idea. Look out for the estate of Augustin-Jean Fresnel to sue for patent infringement. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread DagT
The strangest thing is that it is considered to be news. Diffractive lenses have been known for a long time, though sometimes confused with Fresnel lenses. Only down side is flexibility with respect to focussing distance, contrast and zoom. DagT Den 26. aug. 2012 kl. 15:28 skrev Godfrey

Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread DagT
The idea is to old, and in addition diffraction is something different. :-) DagT Den 26. aug. 2012 kl. 20:42 skrev John Sessoms: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/flat-lens-offers-perfect-image

Re: OT: Flat lens design form Harvard

2012-08-26 Thread Steven Desjardins
I suspect this particular implementation is the newsworthy aspect. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:10 PM, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: The idea is to old, and in addition diffraction is something different. :-) DagT Den 26. aug. 2012 kl. 20:42 skrev John Sessoms: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:44