Adobe includes numerous third-party plug-ins with its After Effects graphics software package that provide you with additional image-manipulation options without the need to spend your time and money ...

Mocha Pro 3.1 is a free update of this planar tracking and rotoscoping software. (What "planar" means is that it can track whole surfaces and not just points - so if a "surface" moves partly out of ...

One of the lesser-known ways that camera manufacturers have been able to make digital cameras ever smaller and less expensive is by using in-camera software to correct for lens distortion on the fly.

A Princeton-led research team develops three-dimensional "metamaterials," which they hope will someday produce lenses that eliminate image distortion For years, researchers have struggled to find an ...

When it comes to wide-angle lenses, landscapes are usually the first subject that springs to mind, but there are a few other subjects which work quite well with the distortion wides create. Obviously, ...

Modern camera lenses are really good. In fact, the engineers have done pretty much everything they can to engineer characteristics like distortion out of the glass. But if you’re still worried about ...

Fresnel, pancake or aspherical: VR glasses contain a lot of optical know-how, but choosing the right lens remains a compromise. Choosing the right lens is crucial for image quality, comfort and ...