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Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology (petapixel.com)
submitted 10 months 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] 75 points 10 months ago (15 children)

The goal of a metalens would be to, eventually, wholly eliminate the smartphone camera bump.

They'll do anything to avoid giving us a slightly thicker battery...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Fuck smartphones, I wanna finally have glasses that are thin, light, and without distortions, reflections, or chromatic aberration

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And have a bigger sweet spot.

Same for VR headset optics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

Sir, that's called a monocle.

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