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- From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
- Subject: Re: film plane flatness
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:13:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.171301.13151@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov8.4228.27422@dosgate> <1992Nov15.154055.1681@msus1.msus.edu>
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- > In article <1992Nov8.4228.27422@dosgate>,
- > "martin tai" <martin.tai@canrem.com> writes (in part):
- > >
- > > There is from time to time discussion of picture sharpness
- > > and film plane flatness. Is it exagerated ?
-
- Depends what you mean by "flat". There is almost certainly nothing to be
- gained by a film that is flat to +/- 1 micron over a film that is only flat
- to +/- 5 microns, for example. All lenses show some curvature of field. You
- are really lucky if a lens has less than about 50 microns of field
- curvature when you get about 50% of the distance from the center of the
- image to the corner. Further out than this (or with a bad lens) you can
- easily get several hundred microns of field curvature (which may be concave
- or convex with respect to the lens). It would be interesting to know what
- the typical film plane flatness is in a 35mm camera. Does anyone have any
- numbers? How much loss of resolution field curvature (or film flatness)
- results in is closely connected to the depth of field of the lens used
- under the conditions used to take the photograph. It will be lower for a
- wide angle lens at small aperture focused at a long distance than for
- a large aperture telephoto focused close.
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- Bob Atkins AT&T Bell Labs email (direct) att!clockwise!rma
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