A Silicon Valley startup says it’s developed a better lens for smartphone photography — one that produces clearer images without the distortion often seen in photos from competing lenses.
To see for myself, I put it through some preliminary testing.

The secret to DynaOptics’ Oowa lens is a proprietary manufacturing process that produces what the company calls a freeform lens.

“What we are able to do with this freeform lens is essentially create a rectangular-like image so that it maps exactly onto the rectangular shape of the image sensor that’s in the phone,” DynaOptics CEO Li Han Chan said in an interview.

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