CCTV Gets Glasses: Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Lens

When a manufacturer tells you they make a spherical-aberration-free finite-conjugate double-aspheric lens, what do you say to them?  That'll be the problem I'll have should I ever meet up with Nanophotonics, a Korean start-up that's specialising in high-quality and low-cost optics for CCTV and robotics applications.  Basically, this model is a super-wide angle lens without the distortion that can come from a the fish-eye style lenses usually employed when broad vision is needed.

A dual-lens system brings a perspectively-correct image to a DVD-quality bullet camera, and as standard permits a 151 degree Field Of View (FOV), with 160 and 180 degree versions possible with more complex set-ups.  The lens also has the benefit of being relatively inexpensive, beginning at little more than $100.

Nanophotonics [via The Raw Feed]