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Wide Angle Lenses and Fisheye Camera Lens Disto...
Optical distortion is a third order transverse aberration. The simple explanation is that distortion is the change in magnification (angular resolution) versus image height. GoPro's marketing team was stuck with...
Wide Angle Lenses and Fisheye Camera Lens Disto...
Optical distortion is a third order transverse aberration. The simple explanation is that distortion is the change in magnification (angular resolution) versus image height. GoPro's marketing team was stuck with...

Resolution 101
Even the experts interchangeably use the term "Resolution" when it actually refers to four different technical metrics. We ran across this misunderstanding during a 2018 conversation within the IEEE P2020...
Resolution 101
Even the experts interchangeably use the term "Resolution" when it actually refers to four different technical metrics. We ran across this misunderstanding during a 2018 conversation within the IEEE P2020...

How to Focus a Camera
Lenses are only as good as your focusing procedure. A few tips from an optical engineering consultant. Advice tidbit #1: Don't use the center! Visit for more.
How to Focus a Camera
Lenses are only as good as your focusing procedure. A few tips from an optical engineering consultant. Advice tidbit #1: Don't use the center! Visit for more.

CMOS Sensor Size
The sensor format size and pixel size of digital camera impacts nearly every performance attribute of a camera. The format type of a digital camera sensor is one of the...
CMOS Sensor Size
The sensor format size and pixel size of digital camera impacts nearly every performance attribute of a camera. The format type of a digital camera sensor is one of the...

Raspberry Pi Video Conferencing
A few early users of our lenses are actively involved in the RPi community and mentioned the products in a thread. And many people were curious "well what lens should...
Raspberry Pi Video Conferencing
A few early users of our lenses are actively involved in the RPi community and mentioned the products in a thread. And many people were curious "well what lens should...