{"id":12231,"date":"2007-02-03T02:22:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T02:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/next-gen-origami-lens.html"},"modified":"2007-02-03T02:22:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T02:22:30","slug":"next_gen_origami_lens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/03\/next_gen_origami_lens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-gen &#034;Origami Lens&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Dowdell tipped me to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primidi.com\/2007\/01\/31.html#a1742\">interesting development<\/a> in the world of tiny optics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at<br \/>\nthe University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones<br \/>\nmakers. They have designed an &#8216;origami lens&#8217; which will slim high<br \/>\nresolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager<br \/>\ndelivers images comparable in quality with photos taken with a compact<br \/>\ncamera lens with a 38 millimeter focal length. In a few years, these<br \/>\nbendable lenses could be used in high resolution miniature cameras for<br \/>\nunmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision<br \/>\napplications.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I, meanwhile, prepare to head out the door with a comparatively luggable 17-85mm lens in hand.&#160; Having seen a colleague shooting this week with an approximately 35-200mm lens that appeared to offer a much wider aperture than mine &amp; no appreciable increase in bulk, I keep wondering about my photo friends&#8217; advice.&#160; &quot;Oh, those things are blurry crap,&quot; they say&#8211;but boy, the flexibility &amp; speed they appear to offer sure is appealing.&#160; It makes me think of audiophiles who drop thousands of dollars on equipment that (to me, anyway) just reveals the flaws in the source audio or other components.&#160; I don&#8217;t want to use garbage, but I&#8217;m starting to stroke my chin about the info I&#8217;ve been getting&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dowdell tipped me to an interesting development in the world of tiny optics: &quot;Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an &#8216;origami lens&#8217; which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}