It’s easy to think that cameras used for anything more complex than taking still images must be constructed from equally complex and expensive components, but that isn’t always the case. A team of ...

Researchers believe lensless cameras may pave the way for tiny future cameras, but the latest academic experiment with an lens-free camera uses something that already exists as a “lens” instead: a ...

Imagine taking a photograph and then being able to seamlessly change the focus of the image once the image has been captured. This is what technologists from Hitachi have developed. The associated ...

While cameras continue to get smaller, using a lens to focus light physically limits this process, even with ultra-thin flat lenses on the way, and explains why so many smartphones have protruding ...

This article was originally featured on Popular Photography. Every photographer knows this truth: When it comes to cameras and gear, things can get huge—and fast. Especially in the lens department.

The camera is compact and inexpensive to construct because it consists of only a diffuser – essentially a bumpy piece of plastic – placed on top of an image sensor. Although the hardware is simple, ...

Weijian Yang, right and graduate student Feng Tian developed a camera that uses a thin microlens array and new image processing algorithms to capture 3D information about multiple objects in single ...

Australian and U.S. scientists have developed a lensless camera which uses X-rays to view nanoscale materials and biological specimens. As says one researcher, 'there is no lens involved at all; ...