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But Swammerdam deserves some slack, Strazzoni suggests. He was working with single-lens microscopes and developing new techniques for dissecting and observing insects’ internal organs.

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We’ve always been big fans of Sony’s top-flight G Master lenses. They’re big and beautiful, but expensive, designed to suit the best Sony cameras for professionals. These lenses aim for the ultimate ...

You can enjoy the latest lenses with clinically perfect optics, or seek out older lenses and optical formulas for images with character. Leica Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6 4.0 ...

Want to preserve the planetary parade or capture the Lynx constellation? The best lenses for astrophotography can help you take beautiful, breathtaking images of the night sky. If you're stepping ...

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — here are our top picks. The best microscopes for students should ...

The team used a publicly available design from the website OpenFlexure to produce the microscope's frame, and clear plastic lenses they designed themselves that cost $0.13 / £0.11 AU$0.22, using ...

Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. Researchers have fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel ...

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Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 13 years, which has given me a front row seat for the DSLR to mirrorless transition, the ...