probing

Schott.

A small optical workshop on the web: one bench, one model family, published limits, no accounts.

Schott exists for the photographs that deserve a second pass — the family scan from 2004, the compressed screenshot, the soft portrait from a three-megapixel era. You drop the image, and the bench resolves a larger, sharper original. Nothing to install, nothing to sign.

Why “Mica-1”

Mica is a silicate mineral that cleaves into optically flat, transparent sheets at the atomic scale. Early optical instruments were built from it. Our enhancement model borrows the idea: layer a soft plate between perfect flats and the original comes back into focus. The current generation is the first, so: Mica-1 — in two passes, Flash and Pro.

Principles

  • Free and anonymous. No account, no email, no card. The bench is open to everyone within published limits.
  • Measured, not marketed. Every number on this site — dimensions, timings, limits — is read from the actual job.
  • Short memory. Images are deleted after 7 days, measurement records after 30. See privacy.
  • No tracking. No analytics scripts, no pixels, no ads.

On the name

The logomark is the eye — an instrument that resolves. Schott is an independent product studio project; everything on the bench is built and operated by it.