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- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!craig
- From: craig@sco.COM (Craig R.P. Heath)
- Subject: Re: How Autofocus works?
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:33:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153328.12289@sco.com>
- References: <1993Jan19.172819.9064@sol.UVic.CA> <1993Jan20.013011.27498@Princeton.EDU>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
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- ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson) writes:
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- >mstoer@sol.UVic.CA (Marcell Stoer) writes:
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- >>I would like to exactly how the autofocus works in the new SLRs.
-
- I've been curious about this too. By the reference to "new" SLRs above,
- do I take it that different SLRs use different technologies? If so, how
- come everybody ended up paying Honeywell millions of dollars for patent
- infringement?
-
- >I always thought the camera tried to maximize high spatial frequencies
- >in the 2d fourier transform of the image. For vertical patterns this
- >should only require 2 diodes.
-
- The thing that really impresses the stuffing out of me is my Minolta
- 5000, which, in manual focus, tells me which way I need to turn the focus
- ring! Now, it can't do that by measuring the differential of two positions
- on the focus ring, because it has no control of that, so how the hell does
- it do it? I'd assumed it was something to do with phase differences
- between light from the same point being measured at two points within
- its circle of confusion, and this somehow indicating whether the
- actual focus point is behind or in front of the film plane, but that's
- just handwaving. Anyone actually _know_?
-
- - Craig @ SCO near London.
-