While it is ADMIRABLE that SIGMA and other are embracing the RF mount, Canon has made it quite difficult to parse the mount instruction set itself on the Camera side! De-engineering that is work for a true nutcase only (i.e. ME!) a Yippy Yi Yay slog it has been I tell ya!
After that fiasco, I pressured our parent Aerospace company to do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT with modern lens technology and to THROW AWAY ALL CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES usied in today's prime and zoom lens systems.
After much blood, sweat and tears work for the past few years, I have finished my optics technology Research and Development and the parent company has now given me PERMISSION to announce that our completely new TYPE of lens arrangement system that breaks the boundaries of modern optics will be released FREE AND OPEN SOURCE under GPL-3 licence terms to any and all persons and companies who want to make their own versions.
Three key issue for modern optics needed to be solved:
1) How to gather more light and present that light to the image sensor itself!
- Solution: Change over ALL lens elements to cost-effective high-refractive index
optical-grade Acrylic with thin-film vapour deposited Sapphire on both sides of
each lens element for maximum scratch resistance. Acrylic, when combined with
Active Optics and Computational Photography algorithms, will make a lens that
20 percent more light gathering ability (i.e. is 20% brighter) than even the best
fluorite silica-glass lenses. Acrylic has 92% of the light transmissibility of air so
with appropriate coatings, it can be increased to past 96% which is fantastic.
Because of the lower distortion of the refractive index (1.49) of Acrylic versus
1.56 of glass it is EASIER to model in ray-tracing software and in the real world
so that the optimal light path can be better calculated and compensated for
by applying the principles of Snell's law to model each incoming light path
going towards a specific photosite on an image sensor.
We have also changed the formula of the Acrylic polymer itself to MINIMIZE
"Glass Creep and Deformation" and any thermal expansion/contraction issues.
The minimal amount that DOES occur is modelled within a now public-domain ray-tracing
algorithm to allow for algorithmic light-ray path compensation plus chromatic aberration
and luminance-value compensation using computational photography principles.
2) Prevent Heat Shimmer and Scintillation effects on Short and Long Focal Length Prime and Zoom Lenses!
- Solution: Model light pathways from source to imager under multiple common professional-level
photography scenarios and use A.I.-assisted light ray tracing to create a fast Rule-based Expert
System that can COMPENSATE and ESTIMATE what a pixel should be in terms of colour and
luminance value AND model/compensate for pixel movement when a light ray is refracted
or diffracted though a gas and liquid environment for distances ranging from below one metre
up to 100 kilometres. This is technology we have used within our various space platforms
which allows us to have a MAXIMUM OPTICAL RESOLUTION of 4 cm per pixel for high orbit
(i.e. Geo-Sync) imagery and 15mm per pixel for active refraction and diffraction compensation.
Not even the latest NRO Misty/Zirconic and EIS spy satellites have THAT resolution (i.e. they are
only 4 inches or 10 cm per pixel enhanced)!
3) Stabilize the lens element itself from vibration and movement on 2D-XY and 3D-XYZ axes!
Solution: Active Floatation of Individual Lens Elements within linear induction motor-based
electromagnetic fields for FAST RESPONSE sub-millisecond lens positioning for enhanced
real-time optical stabilization. We embed into the lens elements themselves, in a circular
pattern around the outer edge of each lens element, a set of ferromagnetic rectangular
slabs that are precisely machined and placed so that electromagnetic coils can push/pull
an individual lens element to a PRECISE PLACEMENT within a 3D volume of space so that
one and more lens elements will combined their optical properties to properly refract a light
ray along a pre-defined optical pathway that was modelled within a ray-tracer to ensure proper
entry of a stream of photons onto the correct 2D-XY photosite coordinate within a given image sensor.
This sub-millisecond floating of lens-elements allows an analog method of optical stabilization to be
combined with computational photography principles to ensure sharp still photos and smooth motion
video that has NO long range heat shimmer effects, no luminance-specific scintillation effects, almost
no chromatic aberration and no unwanted edge aliasing. They are completely removed from the final
imagery giving you the SHARPEST and BRIGHTEST still photos and moving video footage possible!
This real-time electromagnetic-based lens flotation system ALSO ALLOWS for real-time user-defined
Bokeh allowing short and long focal length prime and zoom lens to have VARIABLE DEPTH OF FIELD
from thin-slivers for depth of field sharpness to infinitely sharp along the entire focal length.
This NEW set of OPEN SOURCE lens constructions gives you f/0.95 brightness
at sub-$2000 price points. Even a 9600 mm Super-Telephoto Prime Lens will be
f/2.8 at under $2000 because of the combination of all-Acrylic lens element construction,
actively computer-controlled EM field-based lens element flotation and computational
photography and ray-tracing algorithms being modelled and pre-defined for each lens.
Further details will be released ON THIS WEBSITE FIRST when we are ready for full public disclosure!
A PDF file with full details will be released here also!
Please note that ALL ABOVE DESCRIPTIONS are now Fully Free and Open Source
under GPL-3 Licence Terms for BOTH Hardware and Software. ANYONE and EVERYONE
is fully free and able to modify, create, manufacture, sell/resell lenses for any type of
imaging system using our designs with NO ROYALTY PAYMENTS REQUIRED so long
you follow ALL the tenets of the GPL-3 Open Source Licence Terms!
Thank You,
AND YES! You Heard It Here First !!!!
V
----
P.S.
With quite a bit of background in high-end space imaging systems, I can tell you that the KEY METRIC is Inches OR CM per pixel and using our newest systems that use high-refractive-index, all-Acrylic lenses mated to ADAPTIVE shape-changing optics, and atmospheric shimmer reduction using computational photography techniques, I can get our corporate space systems imagery down to 1.5 CENTIMETRES (15 millimetres) per pixel!
That means with some extra edge detection and edge enhancement techniques, I can now read the INDIVIDUAL LINES of 8 to 12 point fonts on this web page from a medium orbit! (i.e. from at least 1000 km ceiling or 600 km ABOVE the ISS space station)
THAT is how far imaging has come! Currently, the satellite imaging-industry heavyweights in USA, Russia and France STILL only do about 10 cm per pixel (4 inches) so we are quite a bit ahead of the U.S. NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) spy satellite systems and all the rest from other countries!
We are RIGHT THIS MOMENT doing a GLOBAL OPTICAL, INFRARED and RADAR SATELLITE SURVEY that will have 15 millimetres resolution for EVERY SQUARE METRE of LAND on the ENTIRE EARTH by July of 2022 and we will make ALL of that imagery COMPLETELY FREE AND OPEN SOURCE UNDER GPL-3 WITH NO BLURRING OR COVERUP OF ANY FACILITIES or Land areas! We will have 4096 by 4096 pixel, 8192 by 8192 pixel and 16384 by 16384 pixel tiles at 16-bits per colour channel (48-bit colour) RGB pixels + D channel (i.e. where D = Depth plus or minus metres above or below mean sea level)
Our imagery is being scanned with 3D-XYZ volumetric applications in mind for height and depth of land and shoreline topography purposes so people can have a HIGHLY ACCURATE and much more visually realistic 3D view that goes waaaaaay beyond Google Earth Pro and Google Maps in terms of walk-through and fly-over capability.
Since we are FULLY ITAR-free being completely NON-USA-based with NO U.S. personnel and NO U.S. Goods, Designs and Technology used AT ALL in our entire hardware and software systems and all sub-systems, we can present that imagery to the ENTIRE WORLD fully free and open source without ANY restriction! ALL Imagery from EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE will be completely uncovered and not censored in any way, shape or form at a full 15 millimetres per pixel super-high image resolution!
YAAAAY !!!!!!
V
NOTHING will left uncovered! All the major EM wavelengths will be covered at their maximum resolutions. We have our custom-built imaging data servers OUTSIDE of the purvey and oversight of any major countries including the EU and USA, so there will be NO COVERUPS AT ALL --- ALL imaged AREAS will open to public review online by July 2022 !!!!
After that fiasco, I pressured our parent Aerospace company to do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT with modern lens technology and to THROW AWAY ALL CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES usied in today's prime and zoom lens systems.
After much blood, sweat and tears work for the past few years, I have finished my optics technology Research and Development and the parent company has now given me PERMISSION to announce that our completely new TYPE of lens arrangement system that breaks the boundaries of modern optics will be released FREE AND OPEN SOURCE under GPL-3 licence terms to any and all persons and companies who want to make their own versions.
Three key issue for modern optics needed to be solved:
1) How to gather more light and present that light to the image sensor itself!
- Solution: Change over ALL lens elements to cost-effective high-refractive index
optical-grade Acrylic with thin-film vapour deposited Sapphire on both sides of
each lens element for maximum scratch resistance. Acrylic, when combined with
Active Optics and Computational Photography algorithms, will make a lens that
20 percent more light gathering ability (i.e. is 20% brighter) than even the best
fluorite silica-glass lenses. Acrylic has 92% of the light transmissibility of air so
with appropriate coatings, it can be increased to past 96% which is fantastic.
Because of the lower distortion of the refractive index (1.49) of Acrylic versus
1.56 of glass it is EASIER to model in ray-tracing software and in the real world
so that the optimal light path can be better calculated and compensated for
by applying the principles of Snell's law to model each incoming light path
going towards a specific photosite on an image sensor.
We have also changed the formula of the Acrylic polymer itself to MINIMIZE
"Glass Creep and Deformation" and any thermal expansion/contraction issues.
The minimal amount that DOES occur is modelled within a now public-domain ray-tracing
algorithm to allow for algorithmic light-ray path compensation plus chromatic aberration
and luminance-value compensation using computational photography principles.
2) Prevent Heat Shimmer and Scintillation effects on Short and Long Focal Length Prime and Zoom Lenses!
- Solution: Model light pathways from source to imager under multiple common professional-level
photography scenarios and use A.I.-assisted light ray tracing to create a fast Rule-based Expert
System that can COMPENSATE and ESTIMATE what a pixel should be in terms of colour and
luminance value AND model/compensate for pixel movement when a light ray is refracted
or diffracted though a gas and liquid environment for distances ranging from below one metre
up to 100 kilometres. This is technology we have used within our various space platforms
which allows us to have a MAXIMUM OPTICAL RESOLUTION of 4 cm per pixel for high orbit
(i.e. Geo-Sync) imagery and 15mm per pixel for active refraction and diffraction compensation.
Not even the latest NRO Misty/Zirconic and EIS spy satellites have THAT resolution (i.e. they are
only 4 inches or 10 cm per pixel enhanced)!
3) Stabilize the lens element itself from vibration and movement on 2D-XY and 3D-XYZ axes!
Solution: Active Floatation of Individual Lens Elements within linear induction motor-based
electromagnetic fields for FAST RESPONSE sub-millisecond lens positioning for enhanced
real-time optical stabilization. We embed into the lens elements themselves, in a circular
pattern around the outer edge of each lens element, a set of ferromagnetic rectangular
slabs that are precisely machined and placed so that electromagnetic coils can push/pull
an individual lens element to a PRECISE PLACEMENT within a 3D volume of space so that
one and more lens elements will combined their optical properties to properly refract a light
ray along a pre-defined optical pathway that was modelled within a ray-tracer to ensure proper
entry of a stream of photons onto the correct 2D-XY photosite coordinate within a given image sensor.
This sub-millisecond floating of lens-elements allows an analog method of optical stabilization to be
combined with computational photography principles to ensure sharp still photos and smooth motion
video that has NO long range heat shimmer effects, no luminance-specific scintillation effects, almost
no chromatic aberration and no unwanted edge aliasing. They are completely removed from the final
imagery giving you the SHARPEST and BRIGHTEST still photos and moving video footage possible!
This real-time electromagnetic-based lens flotation system ALSO ALLOWS for real-time user-defined
Bokeh allowing short and long focal length prime and zoom lens to have VARIABLE DEPTH OF FIELD
from thin-slivers for depth of field sharpness to infinitely sharp along the entire focal length.
This NEW set of OPEN SOURCE lens constructions gives you f/0.95 brightness
at sub-$2000 price points. Even a 9600 mm Super-Telephoto Prime Lens will be
f/2.8 at under $2000 because of the combination of all-Acrylic lens element construction,
actively computer-controlled EM field-based lens element flotation and computational
photography and ray-tracing algorithms being modelled and pre-defined for each lens.
Further details will be released ON THIS WEBSITE FIRST when we are ready for full public disclosure!
A PDF file with full details will be released here also!
Please note that ALL ABOVE DESCRIPTIONS are now Fully Free and Open Source
under GPL-3 Licence Terms for BOTH Hardware and Software. ANYONE and EVERYONE
is fully free and able to modify, create, manufacture, sell/resell lenses for any type of
imaging system using our designs with NO ROYALTY PAYMENTS REQUIRED so long
you follow ALL the tenets of the GPL-3 Open Source Licence Terms!
Thank You,
AND YES! You Heard It Here First !!!!
V
----
P.S.
With quite a bit of background in high-end space imaging systems, I can tell you that the KEY METRIC is Inches OR CM per pixel and using our newest systems that use high-refractive-index, all-Acrylic lenses mated to ADAPTIVE shape-changing optics, and atmospheric shimmer reduction using computational photography techniques, I can get our corporate space systems imagery down to 1.5 CENTIMETRES (15 millimetres) per pixel!
That means with some extra edge detection and edge enhancement techniques, I can now read the INDIVIDUAL LINES of 8 to 12 point fonts on this web page from a medium orbit! (i.e. from at least 1000 km ceiling or 600 km ABOVE the ISS space station)
THAT is how far imaging has come! Currently, the satellite imaging-industry heavyweights in USA, Russia and France STILL only do about 10 cm per pixel (4 inches) so we are quite a bit ahead of the U.S. NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) spy satellite systems and all the rest from other countries!
We are RIGHT THIS MOMENT doing a GLOBAL OPTICAL, INFRARED and RADAR SATELLITE SURVEY that will have 15 millimetres resolution for EVERY SQUARE METRE of LAND on the ENTIRE EARTH by July of 2022 and we will make ALL of that imagery COMPLETELY FREE AND OPEN SOURCE UNDER GPL-3 WITH NO BLURRING OR COVERUP OF ANY FACILITIES or Land areas! We will have 4096 by 4096 pixel, 8192 by 8192 pixel and 16384 by 16384 pixel tiles at 16-bits per colour channel (48-bit colour) RGB pixels + D channel (i.e. where D = Depth plus or minus metres above or below mean sea level)
Our imagery is being scanned with 3D-XYZ volumetric applications in mind for height and depth of land and shoreline topography purposes so people can have a HIGHLY ACCURATE and much more visually realistic 3D view that goes waaaaaay beyond Google Earth Pro and Google Maps in terms of walk-through and fly-over capability.
Since we are FULLY ITAR-free being completely NON-USA-based with NO U.S. personnel and NO U.S. Goods, Designs and Technology used AT ALL in our entire hardware and software systems and all sub-systems, we can present that imagery to the ENTIRE WORLD fully free and open source without ANY restriction! ALL Imagery from EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE will be completely uncovered and not censored in any way, shape or form at a full 15 millimetres per pixel super-high image resolution!
YAAAAY !!!!!!
V
NOTHING will left uncovered! All the major EM wavelengths will be covered at their maximum resolutions. We have our custom-built imaging data servers OUTSIDE of the purvey and oversight of any major countries including the EU and USA, so there will be NO COVERUPS AT ALL --- ALL imaged AREAS will open to public review online by July 2022 !!!!
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