Optics In A Digital World

Lenses are limited by the laws of physics, but software can help remove some of those limitations

Rob Sheppard

Published July 1, 2007
Updated June 30, 2016

While the prices of digital cameras continue to drop, lens costs aren’t keeping pace. The reasons for this are pretty simple. Lenses don’t follow the computer-based Moore’s law that states changes will occur exponentially. They must follow the laws of physics.

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