Refractive lenses have been around forever—800 years, in fact. The basic architecture of lenses, however, may be changing. Metamaterials could revolutionize lensing systems. Conventional lenses rely on refraction at interfaces to focus…

OMNIVISION unveiled the OVB0A, one of the world’s smallest 200MP image sensors, with a pixel size of just 0.56µm. Designed for rear-facing (wide-angle) main cameras in high-end smartphones, with its unique 16-cell binning capability,…

OPPO launched the first ever microscopic lens on a smartphone. Microscopic magnification for smartphone cameras via the OPPO 'Microlens' delivers images with a level of detail previously only possible with a microscope. The Microlens…