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BillT
We Need Lens-Free Cameras. And Now We Know How to Make Them.
Re: We Need Lens-Free Cameras. And Now We Know How to Make Them.
Excellent! When applied to microscopes, we will be able to get rid of those pesky objectives and eyepieces!
Re: We Need Lens-Free Cameras. And Now We Know How to Make Them.
Perhaps unusually, the Optical Society of America makes the 11-page 'Research Article' downloadable free of charge:
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstra ... 6-18-22826
MichaelG.
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MichaelG.
Too many 'projects'
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Re: We Need Lens-Free Cameras. And Now We Know How to Make Them.
hasn't there already been one, for about 200 years, based on the camera obscura? .... called the pin hole camera?
Re: We Need Lens-Free Cameras. And Now We Know How to Make Them.
Years ago I read an academic article about a grid of sub-micrometer pinholes (I cannot remember the details) which would have eliminated the need for complex and expensive MICROSCOPE objective lenses. The objectives are still alive and expensively kicking...apochronaut wrote:hasn't there already been one, for about 200 years, based on the camera obscura? .... called the pin hole camera?