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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: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190328.22165@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan21.094446.12281@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <TSOS.273.727982894@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Keywords: telephoto, chromatic aberration, ED glass, distortion
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- In article <TSOS.273.727982894@uni-duesseldorf.de>, TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert) writes:
- > 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.
-
- I follow your argument, but I am quite certain that lateral color (i.e
- the color fringing that is observed at the corners of the frame when
- using almost any lens) is not improved by stopping down. Lateral color
- is usually detectable on lenses from wide angle to telephoto, from
- wide open to fully stopped down. Anyone care to comment on the physics/
- optics involved?
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