Taiwan's optical lens makers opened 2026 with a sharp rebound, driven by a recovery in the global smartphone market and rising demand for... Thursday 29 January 2026 Sunny Optical restructures as ...

Meyer Optik Görlitz is rumored to be working on a 42mm f/1.2 lens — and yes, it has red aperture blades!

China's optical industry is confronting significant challenges as several lens module manufacturers reportedly plan layoffs early in 2026, prompted by sluggish smartphone sales and intense price ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's competition watchdog said it had raided several optical lens makers on suspicion of anti-competitive behavior. A brief statement from the Autorite de la Concurrence on ...

Snapchat operator Snap Inc. is spending more than $500 million to acquire Wave Optics Ltd., better known as WaveOptics, a U.K.-based maker of displays and other optical components for augmented ...

(Reuters) - PPG Industries Inc has agreed to sell its $1.73 billion (1.12 billion pounds) controlling stake in Transitions Optical, the inventor of modern variable-tint plastic lenses, to business ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The approach uses multiple sensors to collect raw light patterns independently, then ...

Lens maker Tamron plans to launch ten new lenses in 2026 – a plan that would nearly double the optics brand’s typical annual launches. This month, Tamron shared plans to hit a target of ten new lenses ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical lenses play a crucial role in a vast array of applications, from microscopy and astronomy to photography, medical devices, and machine vision systems. Traditionally, the ...