We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality.

LENS-FREE IS THE WAY TO BE. For a camera to work, it’s pretty much gotta have a lens. That little piece of glass is responsible for directing light to the camera’s sensor so it can produce an image.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...