You may not have noticed it, but there’s been a trend creeping into most of our lives. Its origins are rooted in consumer expectation. Consumers want to hold up their cell phones and snap the perfect selfie with the sun setting over the beach behind them. And they want to create panorama shots that challenge the best of wide angle lenses.
What do these two scenarios have in common? The answer is in how engineers solve the hard problems created by the common imaging conditions in the examples above.