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- From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
- Subject: Re: Resolution of Lens ???
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:21:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192154.236@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <Uf2JFiO00iV1M5dkha@andrew.cmu.edu> <Bxw69K.309@world.std.com> <1992Nov18.164258.8766@cello.hpl.hp.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.164258.8766@cello.hpl.hp.com>, jacobson@cello.hpl.hp.com (David Jacobson) writes:
- > In article <Bxw69K.309@world.std.com> dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) writes:
- > >When I have had lenses tested, they were used in projection - an
- > >etched resolution test reticle was placed at the film plane, with a
- > >collimated light source behind it (the reticle was a peice of
- > >aluminized glass - it looked a whole lot like a mask from an IC shop).
- > >That was projected onto a screen, with the distance varied to get it
- > >all to fit. The person then examined the projected image to see what
- > >the smallest clearly projected portion of the chart was. He could make
- > >judgement about field flatness, chromatic aberration, flare, and
- > >lens alignment in addition to resolution. No math or measurment was
- > >required to come up with the resolution number - you just read off the
- > >number next to the last clearly resolved pattern.
- >
- > I've got a question of the optics experts on the net. When you use a
- > projection reticle like this the light going through one piece of the
- > reticle and a neighboring piece will be coherent. (Well, coherent
- > might not be the right word.) So there will be interference effects.
- > But light from different points of a subject coming the other way will
- > not have any iterference effects. How does this affect the results?
- >
- >
- Well, the light isn't coherent so there will be no problem. I'm not sure
- there would be a problem even if it were (but I'd have to think about it
- a little more to be sure). The projection technique will of course give
- different results than the usual "photographing a test pattern" technique
- since the resolution made by the latter technique is also influenced by the
- film resolution (and maybe by camera shake!). This is clearly seen by the fact
- that it is almost impossible to get more than 100 lp/mm when testing any lens
- using normal film (including K25, Velvia, or Tech Pan), wheras almost any
- lens shows higher resolution than this in the film plane. I have a 500mm f5
- that clearly resolves over 250 lp/mm in the film plane and yet I have never
- measured better than 80 lp/mm on film (Velvia), despite using the bigest
- tripod I can carry (Bogen 3051) and mirror lock-up.
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- Bob Atkins AT&T Bell Labs email (direct) att!clockwise!rma
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