Liquid Camera Lenses

[racoon31e]

I'm not really sure if this fits in here, so sorry if it's in the wrong forum.

This article is about future camera lenses that will be made using liquid. I'm not really sure how it works, but I gather from the article that the focus is adjusted using high-frequency sound, and the focus speed is around 4ms.

Read the article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1051

Maybe our lenses will be replaced by these next time...:think:

 

[doodah]

OLED screens, fuel cell batteries - these cutting edge technologies have been discussed alongside liquid lenses for quite a while now, but nothing concrete has been demonstrated so far.

 

[GavinTing]

Argh! My lens is leaking! :bsmilie:

 

[YSLee]

I still prefer my Lenseless Anomalous Precision Air Refraction System.

 

[denniskee]

like that no need dry box liao. i suppose should have fungus problem right?

go cold country how, what lens freezes into ice.

go hot country how, water will evapourit.

:think::think::think:

:dunno::dunno:

 

[deancool335]

Argh! My lens is leaking! :bsmilie:

Your lens is leaking. Mine is full of water.:bsmilie:

 

[snapworks]

Your lens is leaking. Mine is full of water.:bsmilie:

Hmm... can set up lens SPA wor :bsmilie:

 

[astrise]

I'm not really sure if this fits in here, so sorry if it's in the wrong forum.

This article is about future camera lenses that will be made using liquid. I'm not really sure how it works, but I gather from the article that the focus is adjusted using high-frequency sound, and the focus speed is around 4ms.

Read the article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1051

Maybe our lenses will be replaced by these next time...:think:

This is probably geared more towards microlenses rather than a replacement for full-sized glass optics, simply because it'd be very difficult to have non-solid lens elements of comparable quality at macroscopic diameters.
A possible application would probably be CCD/CMOS microlenses, where incident light can be selectively and variably refocused onto each photosite to compensate for optical distortions at the extremes (edge sharpness, abberations - to a certain extent?)