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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: What does ED glass really buy you?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.195309.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1993Jan21.094446.12281@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:53:09 GMT
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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?
- >
-
- The ED or what ever it is called allows *CHEAPER* lenses of given quality of
- chromatic aberations. A 'normal' correction is ~F/2000 for a simple, cheap
- design. With 'ED' glasses, this can go to F/8000, or F/16000 for fluorite.
-
- The axial colour errors effectivly subtract from depth of FOCUS, and are
- highly corrorlated to the main image. This makes them very visible to the
- brain. The stopping down does not reduce lateral-colour, or sphero-
- chromatic errors.
-
- ~Paul
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-