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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: What does ED glass really buy you?
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:28:14 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
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- References: <1993Jan21.094446.12281@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> <1993Jan21.173218.28028@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
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- Keywords: telephoto, chromatic aberration, ED glass, distortion
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- In article <1993Jan21.173218.28028@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins) writes:
-
- >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).
-
- Yes and no ;-). Chromatic aberration is caused by different focal lengths
- for different wave lengths (as other posters have pointed out in detail).
- And this doesn't change when stopping down. But with a smaller aperture,
- the depth of field is larger -- or, accordingly, the cones of light that
- point from the exit pupil of the lens to a spot on the film have a smaller
- diameter. Thus for a white point of light in the subject range, some
- colours are still out of focus if you stop down, but the `coloured disc'
- it creates on the film is smaller.
-
- So the chromatic aberration is still there when you stop down the lens,
- but its effect is smaller and maybe invisible.
-
- (Of course stopping down doesn't help against distortion. But the latter
- is easier to correct in slow lenses; as far as I remember it can, together
- with field curvature, occur as a result of a correction of astigmatism, and
- this in turn gets worse for large apertures.)
-
- > 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.
-
- I believe that chromatic aberration (and distortion) are reasonably easy
- to eliminate (for practical purposes) in slow telephoto lenses -- without
- ED glass. That's why you only find ED in fast lenses and why it makes
- these even more expensive.
-
- [Any further corrections and additions are welcome. :-)]
- --
- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
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