Imaging recource: Begone, reflections: Zeiss explains the science behind its famous T* coating technology

    Just about every modern lens has something in common: The use of anti-reflective coatings which allow the complex, element-rich optical formulae we take for granted today. Perhaps the key pioneer in the field was Ukranian physicist Alexander Smakula, who invented the first interference-based anti-reflective coatings in 1935, while working for German optics icon Carl Zeiss. (Does that mean you can claim your lenses have a little bit of Zeiss in their blood? Well, we'll leave that call up to you!) One of the best-known such...
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