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Would a circular image sensor be the best thing ever? Heck yeah!

Jan 23, 2018 by Jolyon Ralph 35 Comments
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Have you ever wondered why camera lenses produce a circular image circle (in general) but sensors are rectangular? Of course the answer is mostly historical – the format of a 35mm photo is in 3:2 aspect ratio, a ratio that people have long known to work well due to human binocular vision.

But lenses, in general, are circular. they produce an image circle, a circle that, in general, allows the 35mm sensor to just fit inside it. You don’t want your image circle much bigger than this (except for tilt-shift lenses) because that makes your lenses heavier and more expensive.

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Meet the X3, a filter that claims to be the ‘world’s sharpest and most color neutral circular polarizer’

Nov 11, 2015 by GB Leave a Comment
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Breakthrough Photography has already had their, well, breakthrough, but they’re looking to push the boundaries even further.

On December 14th 2014 the San Francisco-based startup finished a very successful Kickstarter campaign for their then-new collection of neutral density and circular polarizer filters. Now, they’re improving their offerings with a new circular polarizer filter that they claim to be the ‘world’s sharpest and most color neutral.’[Read More…]

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