This experiment revisits a long-running attempt to build a working camera lens and image system from scratch, then upgrades it into a usable camera for a live public event. After previously producing ...

A periscope camera lens is a lens assembly that uses prisms, mirrors, or a combination of them to redirect light before it reaches the camera sensor. In doing so, it magnifies the image more so than ...

This custom bellows lens fits on a modern Nikon and captures that early 20th century tilt-shifting style like nothing else. Sacrificing a $5 vintage folding camera, the lens complete with the ...

Engineers at MIT, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, have devised a way to build a camera lens that avoids the typical spherical curve of ultra-wide-angle glass, while ...

In a show full of 100MP sensors, VR lenses and AI shenanigans, it was a breath of fresh air at CP+ 2026 to get my hands on the P-Sharan Ami-35 – a film camera made of paper card that only costs $18 / ...