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Roundtable
Issues in Optics and Lenses for OEM Imaging - Now
August 2001
If you talk about the quality of imaging systems and ways to improve them perennially focus on hardware and software issues--or on "resolution" of images and pixel counts outside of practical image-grabbing reality--there's no subject more significant for the imaging system designer, camera OEM, and finally the pro user than the quality and appropriateness of imaging system optics and lenses. We've called on two key industry authorities to speak to the ongoing issues in this quietly vital arena—from different ends of the imaging spectrum.
SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE

John
Stack
is president of Edmund Industrial Optics;
Barrington, NJ.

Michael
D. Rubin