Ultra thin telephoto lens to revolutionise camera phones

Engineers in California have announced the development of a new lens that could drastically improve the quality of camera phone images.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) created the ultra thin camera using origami to fold up the telephoto lens. They are hoping that the development will yield thin and lightweight high resolution cameras for use in mobile phones.
The resulting imager is around seven times more powerful than a standard lens of the same depth meaning cameras can now be much thinner and more powerful at the same time.
Joseph Ford, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Jacobs School who leads the camera project, commented.