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Many lenses from the 80s/90s hold their own compared to modern designs. We’ve been at the plateau of the S curve for a while. The really exciting stuff is happe
by GuiA 6y ago
Many lenses from the 80s/90s hold their own compared to modern designs. We’ve been at the plateau of the S curve for a while. The really exciting stuff is happening in smartphones, where miniaturization is the driving variable - for instance the latest folded optics designs.
- londons_explore 6y agoI really wish mobile camera reviews would have lens teardowns and commentary on the design tradeoffs made... More people need to know about the engineering that went into them.
- DagAgren 6y agoI'd say the really exciting stuff happening in smartphones are the things going on with computational photography, like Apple's Deep Fusion. This is moving beyond the limitations of single lenses and single sensors and enabling some pretty impressive things.
- gerikson 6y ago> Many lenses from the 80s/90s hold their own compared to modern designs Possibly in tele designs. There's been a ton of progress in wide-angle designs, and in fast normal lenses. Of course these come at the price of expense and weight...