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Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:13 pm**

https://futurism.com/lens-free-camera/? ... e4e133176b

BillT

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:57 am**

Excellent! When applied to microscopes, we will be able to get rid of those pesky objectives and eyepieces!

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:24 am**

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.

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:21 pm**

hasn't there already been one, for about 200 years, based on the camera obscura? .... called the pin hole camera?

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:41 pm**

apochronaut wrote:hasn't there already been one, for about 200 years, based on the camera obscura? .... called the pin hole camera?

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...

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