According to PetaPixel, some old camera lenses used by photographers are actually radioactive due to their use of lanthanum and thorium to reduce the index of refraction. Of course, nowadays, you can just grow the perfect glass.
Tag: lenses
Earlier this month, I posted a video of Nikon lenses being made and noted how it was sort of surprising that none of the workers were wearing gloves while touching the glass. Well, now Nikon has released another video on how their lenses and glass are made and this time, people are wearing gloves. I [...]
Shots of glass. Shots of nature. Shots of engineers. Shots of nature. Shots of glass. Shots of nature. Japan!! This is how SIGMA lenses are made!
It really amazes me that nobody in this factory wears gloves. NOBODY.
Canon’s Nifty Fifty from One Time on Vimeo. A good video from Borrowlenses.com on the differences between the range of 50mm lenses in Canon’s range as compared to Zeiss’ own 50mm. [via]
Manufacturing Super from retrosuperfuture on Vimeo. My SUPER frames are my favorite of all of my sunglasses. It was nice to see how they were made.
