Modern lenses tend to be large and expensive, with multiple glass elements combining to minimise optical aberrations. But what if we could just use a cheap single-element lens, and remove those aberrations computationally instead ? This is the question scientists at the University of British Columbia are asking, and they’ve come up with a way of improving images from a simple single element lens that gives pretty impressive results. Click through to read more.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)