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- From: jacobson@cello.hpl.hp.com (David Jacobson)
- Subject: Re: Depth of field equations
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.181322.11519@cello.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:13:22 GMT
- References: <Bxoqrr.6Gu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Nov14.200535.17240@cs.rit.edu> <1992Nov17.171433.10861@cello.hpl.hp.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.171433.10861@cello.hpl.hp.com>
- jacobson@cello.hpl.hp.com (David Jacobson, I) write:
- >Adams' formula is exact, even for macro work, under the following
- >conditions:
- >
- >1. The circle of confusion is small compared with the aperture.
- >(Almost always true.)
- >
- >2. You are not doing macro work OR the diaphragm looks the same size from
- >front and rear. (Usually true. The diaphragm on ultra-wide angle
- >lenses often appears to be different from front and rear, but you
- >would seldom use such a lens for macro work.)
- >
- >3. You interpret f as the *effective* f-stop, in other words, it is
- >already corrected for bellows factor.
- >
- >4. The subject distance is measured from the front *focal* point.
- >That is one focal length in front of the front nodal point. (You can
- >find it by turning the lens around and observing where the image of a
- >distant object is sharp.) Most physics texts display formulas
- >assuming distances are measured from the nodal points. The focusing
- >scales on most cameras are calibrated from the film plane.
- >
- > -- David Jacobson
-
- Clause 2 should be deleted. There is an effect called pupil
- magnification. It causes the diaphragm to appear to have a different
- size from front and rear. This is often seen in wide angle lenses. I
- had once seen a formula for bellows correction of depth of field or
- something like that that worried about it, and I mistakenly thought it
- mattered here. But I worked out formulas that included pupil
- magnification and discovered that if you use effective f stop, as
- required by clause 3, pupil magnification doesn't matter.
-
- -- David Jacobson
-
-