About half of the pictures in the article are taken with the lens assembly.
Pinhole is good for outdoors and sunshine, but is useless for MWIR/SWIR and indoors scenes, even with my 600W Metal Halide lights.
The lenses give the radial blur at the edges effect, pinhole gives the darkening at the edges effect.
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The lenses give the radial blur at the edges effect, pinhole gives the darkening at the edges effect.