Specular optics is high-angle imaging optics that generates an exact replica of the surface instead of blurry, out of focus images, like leading laser mice.
Yeah right.....Plain nonsense!!!
Does MS really think other laser mice would be made with high precision sensors but with "oops we forgot to focus"? I can remember the pictures in the news when the laser mice came, claiming and showing very sharp pictures. This MS marketing is just "we are soo better than the rest". Someone should really check out the difference, if any.
Originally Posted by xion this new technology phrase seems a bit of a stretch to me, but as always feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...
1. Replace red LED with Bloooo1 = increased contrast...
Unless you have a blue mousemat... then it will probably decrease contrast.
But blue sells.
There is an argument that shorter wavelengths (blue is shorter than red) can yield a higher resolution image.. but seriously... we're not trying to resolve the individual atoms that make up the desk it's sat upon.. this is just crazy. It's all marketing hype. I could argue, with good reason, that blue light is FAR more prone to scatter than red light, and hence harder to resolve.
And as for these "special" optics... LOL... It will be a plastic, single element lens like every other mouse.
This is why I still maintain that laser light is superior in applications like this, as a single wavelength source can be more precisely focused. With a wideband light source such as a LED, each discreet wavelength will yield a separate focal length, resulting in aberrations. It's for this reason that camera optics use multi-element lenses using many different types of glass with individual refractive indexes, so different wavelengths can be brought to a single focal point (or closer to one). With a single wavelength source... you get rid of these problems totally, and even a cheap lens will resolve an image to a single point.
Special optics my arse!
Just get a G5 and spend the rest on crisps or something.... or a decent mouse mat.
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ReplyYeah right.....Plain nonsense!!!
Does MS really think other laser mice would be made with high precision sensors but with "oops we forgot to focus"? I can remember the pictures in the news when the laser mice came, claiming and showing very sharp pictures. This MS marketing is just "we are soo better than the rest". Someone should really check out the difference, if any.
Unless you have a blue mousemat... then it will probably decrease contrast.
But blue sells.
There is an argument that shorter wavelengths (blue is shorter than red) can yield a higher resolution image.. but seriously... we're not trying to resolve the individual atoms that make up the desk it's sat upon.. this is just crazy. It's all marketing hype. I could argue, with good reason, that blue light is FAR more prone to scatter than red light, and hence harder to resolve.
And as for these "special" optics... LOL... It will be a plastic, single element lens like every other mouse.
This is why I still maintain that laser light is superior in applications like this, as a single wavelength source can be more precisely focused. With a wideband light source such as a LED, each discreet wavelength will yield a separate focal length, resulting in aberrations. It's for this reason that camera optics use multi-element lenses using many different types of glass with individual refractive indexes, so different wavelengths can be brought to a single focal point (or closer to one). With a single wavelength source... you get rid of these problems totally, and even a cheap lens will resolve an image to a single point.
Special optics my arse!
Just get a G5 and spend the rest on crisps or something.... or a decent mouse mat.
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