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 ...

The camera inside your smartphone uses a lens and a red-green-blue filter to capture color images, but researchers have just developed a tiny camera that doesn’t have a lens or a colored filter, yet ...

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.

Lensless imaging technology introduces computing power into the conventional optical imaging system. The lensless camera becomes compact and easy-to-build. The earliest lensless camera could be ...

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; ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Bell Labs lensless camera in action. (Courtesy: Gang Huang, Hong Jiang, Kim Matthews and Paul Wilford/Bell Labs) A new kind of camera that does not form a physical image has been developed by ...

Even as our phones get thinner, there's one spot that keeps sticking out: the camera lens. Taking good pictures and being able to focus at multiple distances requires a layer of glass that's a certain ...