Comments on: Kodak packs two lenses in latest camera

The Easyshare V570 has a trim frame that sports both a 23 mm wide-angle lens and a 5x zoom.
Photos: Kodak's dual-lens camera

[jeolmeun]

aw, no 3D pictures?

When are they going to come out with dual horizontal lens cameras for those 3D pictures?

[fgoldstein]

Shades of Brownie!

Somebody at Kodak was probably walking around their collection of old cameras one day and had an idea...

Back in the early 1960s, I had a cheap Kodak Brownie camera. Good for a kid, not a big investment. Instead of having a regular focus mechanism, it had a wheel with three lenses, for close, medium and distant focus. This new camera looks a bit like the old lens-wheel design, though of course these lenses are no doubt a whole lot better than a cheap kids' camera (today's film disposables have about the same grade of lens as those, I'd guess). Credit to Kodak for clever recycling of the idea.

[Jay_in_FL]

Can a lense-less digital camera be made yet?

Remember the old box cameras with just a shutter, small hole (pin hole), and a glass cover over the hole? They took great photos, no need to worry about the quality of the lense or focusing. I do not recall the shortest range that the subject was in focus, maybe 4 feet?

Is the sensor technology good enough yet to make a pinhole camera??

Jay

[Razzl]

Reality will never be that virtual

You would never like the quality of image that comes from a pinhole, no matter how much software is used to touch it up. Remember, the hole is still a lense: it's still twisting light to get an image to focuse on the receptor plate.

No, photography will eternally rely on some method of converging the light onto a capture medium. Without a focusing device there is no way to screen out unwanted radiations to limit the image to the small slice bouncing off your intended subject. Modern lenses do miraculous things like filter out UV and correct distortion from image plane problems, so lenses are your friends in the fight to make good pictures. The analog part of photography is here to stay...

The Olympus Infinity Twin...

35mm P&S did this years ago.