Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan

Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan by beagle3 on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:58AM (#25494494)

I was not referring to phone lens, although those things are being applied there too.

It is now possible to build a telephoto lens for your DSLR, that costs $2 to make, is short and flat, yet has better optics than your current kit. When these become common, it will likely cause another seismic shift in the pure-camera market. Perhaps some of them will actually be bonded with the sensors, unlike what we have today.

Regardless, new lens technology -- while likely to make a greater impact on mobile phones -- is largely orthogonal to them.

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Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan by nordsieck on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:44AM (#25494851)

> It is now possible to build a telephoto lens for your DSLR, that costs $2 to make, is short and flat, yet has better optics than your current kit.

Do you have any references you can share? I'm super interested.

edit: For anyone else interested, the key phrase that worked for me was "metasurface lenses".

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Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan by pjc50 on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:22AM (#25494659)

... can you actually buy this yet?

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Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan by Kye on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:44AM (#25494853)

Metamaterial lenses seem to be the fusion power of photography. Just one breakthrough that might not happen before they're commercially viable.

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