Eddie Judd is Technical Director of Davin Optronics. Eddie started in optics in the early 60's while working at BSIRA (now SIRA Ltd) - initially as a laboratory assistant responsible for measurement of mtf of lenses and for the development of mtf calibration and verification procedures. He became interested in complex optical computations and was able to study optics and lens design under the tutelage of Professor Charles Wynne.

Leaving SIRA in 1971, Eddie then spent a couple of years at MEL Watson designing optics for military systems and then at Crosfield Electronics designing optics for pre-press systems. In 1975 Eddie had the opportunity to join the newly formed Davin Optics Ltd with the task of bring optical system design and manufacture to what was then an optical components manufacturing company. And he has been there ever since, occasionally as Marketing Director, but mostly as Technical Director.

In the 30 years Eddie has worked in lens design and optical engineering he has designed literally hundreds of lens systems for a great diversity of industries; night vision, missile optics, simulation systems, pre-press industry, machine vision, medical systems, laser beam delivery and so on. This considerable experience has given him insight into the problems of producing economic, manufacturable lenses.