How will this affect the future of lenses?

[Rodrigo Violante]

The future might be more promisiong when it comes with lens quality!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a28648718/mathematician-solves-old-camera-lens-problem/

SOunds pretty cool

 

[Michael Lindsay]

I wondered about this as well!... but after reading around and pondering it I concluded that the practical implementation of this ‘formulaic solution’ are not likely to surface in cine lenses for a very long time.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will offer up some more coherent thoughts than mine.

That said, and on a separate train of optical thinking, I do think there has been a bit of a jump (albiet small) in optics recently... for example our Cine Sigma 28mm (designed last in that series) seems a fair bit better than the other cine Sigmas ?

PS Selfishly my interest was part motivated by my considerable investmnt in Cine optics!

 

[David Peterson]

In general lens design has leaped forward in the last handful of years, thanks to computer modeling software allowing people to virtually test and design prototypes without having to first making a physical copy in every instance like they did back in the bad old days