[pietro72ohboy]

A lens is a BIG part of the final image you get. So much so that the common advice in most photography forums is that within a price gap, buy the best lens you can find and an okay camera. Camera tech, especially in large dedicated full-frame and APS-C units, has plateaued since 2018, and most cameras from that period take exceptionally good pictures, even by today's standards. Thus, lens availability, price, and quality, as well as AF tracking, are what fundamentally differentiate modern cameras.

EDIT: I got pulled into the discussion without reading the article. The lens is for industrial uses.

[throwanem]

You're missing that this is not designed as a tool for photographers, but rather in a collaboration with Mitsubishi aimed at better situational awareness for vehicle operators. The headline doesn't mention this, but it's impossible to miss in the article.

[haswell]

In the context of the GP, I think the point still stands though which is roughly: “the lens matters a lot”.

Without knowing more about the optics, it’s hard to know how much of a role the sensor/ISP play in the innovation, but those are well established and widely capable across both photographic and industrial use cases.

Very curious to eventually learn more about this and whether it might eventually find its way into traditional cameras.

[jfengel]

I couldn't tell from the article: is it for human eyeballs or for computers?

If it's for eyeballs it would be nifty to know what kind of image displays both kinds of information at once.

If it's for computers, what is the advantage over two cameras right next to each other? Less hardware? More accurate image recognition? Something else?

[pvaldes]

I would expect a big photo with an ok resolution including inside an area of much higher resolution (aka teleobjective part). That special area can be cropped later to obtain a much bigger photo with all the detail than a tele would bring.

[sunnybeetroot]

I recommend reading the article if you haven’t already as it mentions this is for vehicles, there isn’t a mention of photographers.

[4ad]

This is not a lens for photographers, it's an industrial piece of technology...