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- From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
- Subject: Re: What does ED glass really buy you?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:32:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.173218.28028@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan21.094446.12281@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>, dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- > My understanding is that the ultra-expensive telephoto and
- > zoom lenses featuring ED-type elements allows colors in
- > whatever wavelength to focus on a single plane. My question
- > is, if you take a non-ED lens of the same focal length, and
- > stop it down several stops, would not the inherent depth of
- > focus at the film plane have much the same effect, esp. with
- > a subject focussed at infinity? In other words, would the
- > ED type lenses really come into their own when used at near
- > fully open apertures... which kind of implies that the photographer
- > wanted to either hand hold, or for some other reason wanted to
- > maximize shutter speed (sports, nature)? What it comes down to,
- > for tripod-mounted landscape use, with small apertures, is there
- > any advantage to ED?
- >
-
- Some aberations are improved by stoping down a lens, but some are not.
- Stoping down won't help chromatic aberation or distortion (pincushion
- or barrel effects). ED and fluorite lenses do eliminate chromatic
- aberation, but their use is only really required for telephoto lenses,
- wher chromatic aberation can be very strong. Most landscape work is
- done with wide angle lenses (though certainly not all), which really
- don't need ED glass (but it certainly doesn't hurt). If you want to do
- landscape work with a stopped down telephoto, you still need ED glass.
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- Bob Atkins AT&T Bell Labs email (direct) att!clockwise!rma
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