Resolve Optics provides a specialist lens design and manufacture service to replace hard to source or obsolete optical systems.
During the planning stage of a product, many designers reduce costs by incorporating ’off-the-shelf’ lenses and lens systems.
This eliminates any control over security of supply and that ’off-the-shelf’ lenses sometimes offer compromised performance compared with an optimised specialist design.
Driven by the impending obsolescence of two off-the-shelf lenses in their four mega pixel camera - a motion capture device manufacturer approached Resolve Optics to replace the two critical components.
The motion capture camera used a very large format sensor which was making it difficult to find an alternative secure supply of lenses that provided the desired image format, resolution and field of view (FOV).
Resolve Optics was able to design and manufacture lenses that exactly matched the camera performance and image format, something that the previous lenses had not done.
The overall camera performance was improved thereby increasing the market life of the product and improving its competitiveness.
For a small cost premium, over the ’off-the-shelf’ lenses, the motion capture camera company were able to gain security of supply for critical components.
In addition a commitment that the high performance lenses would not be sold to any company operating within the same field ensured that their new competitive advantage would be maintained.
