Long focus lens design books

The design of photographic lenses for use in still or cine cameras is intended to produce a lens. A course in lens design springer series in optical. Long lens techniques for wildlife photos outdoor photographer. By including some other details, it becomes a much more human shot. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixed focus and zoom lenses can be optimized, starting from planeparallel surfaces. While advancements in the field over the past two centuries have done much to transform it from the former category to the latter, much of the lens design process remains encapsulated in the experience and knowledge of industry veterans. If i have to hold a book with one hand while typing with my other hand.

Net books we recommend for optical design video how tos, hint, tips and secrets for lens design software from qioptiq linos photonics optical design is a highly complex subject. Therefore, in this study, we discuss the optical design method of the very wide angle optical system of an internal focusing type that can focus with. It was fast enough to shoot indoor sports, and the internalfocusing design let it focus from near to far with the flick of a finger. A large part of this book is devoted to a study of possible design procedures for various types of lens or mirror systems, with fully worked examples of each. My first long lens, purchased back in 1983, was the canon 400mm. Options include single vision, bifocal, trifocal and progressive noline lens designs. We have not included any specific design examples of lenses for largeformat.

By comparison, i own the excellent and somewhat similar voigtlander 65mm f2. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how each available degree of freedom is used to control one aberration. Spherical aberration is fully corrected by the design itself and ghosting is never a problem. The publishers website states that the book is sewn to lay flat, but its actually very tightly bound. The fujinon 450c is a compact lens with long reach and tremendous coverage. This lens is mostly used in long focal length systems with longitudinal.

While the petzval portrait lens forever changed photography almost instantly, the landscape design sat dorment until about 1856. Of equal importance are the analytical tools used to determine the quality of the design. Optical design has a long and storied history, from the magnifiers of. Conrady in applied optics and optical design and rudolph kingslake in lens design fundamentals, first edition. Barry johnson, in lens design fundamentals second edition. In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. I got mentors in different fields to help me with lens designs that i wasnt familiar with. Focus depth characteristics of lenses with long focal depth.

The heliar design consists of 5 elements in three groups with cemented doublets, allowing correction of spherical, chromatic, and astigmatic aberrations. A guide to finding the best lens design for you can be ez. It makes a nice portrait lens for 8x10, a long lens for 5x7 and its a very long lens for 4x5, but its smaller and lighter than most lenses. A planar design is one with 4 groups of 6 elements, and a flat field design. So the modern lens designer may work on lenses that are a long way from your bifocals or pocket 35 mm camera although the compact lens in a pocket camera can represent some clever design and costeffective engineering. A refracting telescope also called a refractor is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image also referred to a dioptric telescope. The book introduces geometrical optics, optical instruments and aberrations. A course in lens design is an instruction in the design of imageforming optical systems. These precision tinted lenses can help prevent headaches and migraine associated with computer use. Its function is to bend rays of light by a physical process called. It is used to make distant objects appear magnified with magnification increasing as longer focal length lenses are used.

Field guide to lens design 2012 bentley publications spie. The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. It adds impressive building blocks to the foundation established by a. This edition has been thoroughly updated and contains integral coverage of soft lenses. Long lens landscapes ebook outdoor photography guide. Lens design fundamentals rudolf kingslake, applied optics and optical design part 1 and part 2 a. Telescope making wikibooks, open books for an open world. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Fundamentally a telephoto design is used to make a lens body shorter than its focal length, for practical reasons what if your 18300 ultrazoom was actually 30cm long. Smith, and optical system design robert fischer, introduction to lens design. If it had those two things, it would be pretty much the perfect lens.

With practical zemax examples edition 1 available in. Your camera is a small, portable darkness, and the lens is its window on the world. Petzvals landscape lens, the orthoskop, featured a double combination of lenses, which allowed for greater sharpness and flatness of field than the ordinary single lens of the day. If you read print books and find that you have difficulty focusing or your eyes get tired quickly, then readers may be what you need. Ultimate guide to sony emount video and cine lenses. Lens design fundamentals, second edition, is the most comprehensive treatise to be published on the subject of lens design. Thankfully, there are a multitude of books on lens design, starting with the optics theory, optical system design, manufacturing technology, and yes, lens design methods too. Which long focus prime lenses are actually telephoto in the. Barry johnson is a disciple of conrady and kingslake, and who has a deep background in lens design theory as a professor of optics and many years of experience as a practicioner in the real world of lens design. With practical zemax examples joseph geary, are all great books, just to name a few. If a system uses light in some way including any system that uses laser beams, lens design is almost certainly involved. A simple lens is a polished piece of glass with concave or convex surfaces.

The focal length of a lens, or of a curved mirror, is the distance at which it brings incoming light to a focal point, or simply focus. As a ruleofthumbs a good long tele lens will always feature two or. It teaches how a satisfactory design can be obtained in a straightforward way. Mostly canon 35mm lens diagramsillustrations and their mtf graphs, but there is a small section on optical design and lens aberrations that is well done for the novice, and is well illustrated. Introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples. In this ebook, justin reznick explores the different themes and techniques that will push your creative pursuits to new heights with long lens photography. Can a longfocus lens working at a narrow angular field be replaced by a. A long lens isolates things so if you just shoot a close up on its own, it can look like something from a nature documentary.

Mar 26, 2020 the list of emount lenses keeps growing at lighting speed. Field guide to lens design 2012 bentley publications. The lens curves are stronger, but not unreasonable and not difficult to make well. This book holds a unique place in the optics literature. The technique of panning is the tracking of the subject in the viewfinder by moving the whole long lens camera. Thus, he is ideally suited to write an uptodate edition of lens design fundamentals. With the announced intention of helping its new members make better pictures and keep up to date on technique, the camera club has organized a special series of studio groups. The less the curvature, the longer the focal length. The refracting telescope design was originally used in spy glasses and astronomical telescopes but is also used for long focus camera lenses. A practical guide crc press book a practical guide to lens design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the united states. A practical guide to lens design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. Can be used with ishoot quick release plate qs120 sold separately, or qs350 sold separately, installed between longfocus lens and camera body, sharing the weight of the camera mount, to protect long focus lens and camera mount from damage, but also increase stability.

The design of a fixed focal length lens also known as prime lenses presents fewer challenges. Long lens tips and techniques outdoor photographer. Every step from setup specifications to finalizing the design for production is discussed in a straight forward, tangible way. Lenses and depth of field university of california, irvine. The fraunhofer lens, by contrast, is comacorrected and collimation hardly needs to be done. Design a modern optical system requires the integration of expertise in widely different fields such as, lens design, thermal and mechanical analysis, sensors, etc. The short focus travel on the laowa 100m makes finetuning focus at both macro and portrait distances a little difficult. Design examples of several widely used modern lenses are provided. Use this book along with julie bentleys online course. The tessar design is suitable for frontelement focussing, but unit focussing is used on large format cameras. You can do this technique with any lens, any length, as long as you practice, practice, practice. Justin reznick telephoto lenses are the most underutilized tool in the kit of a landscape photographer. Long lenses are just one of the ways you can frame your shots. Camera lenses have been discussed in a large number of books and articles.

In photography, a longfocus lens is a camera lens which has a focal length that is longer than. I worked with that lens for seven years, not fully realizing the incredible benefits of the really big glass until some guy let me look through his 600mm. As a manual focus lens, it will be passed over by the masses, but if you arent put off by manual focus and take a chance on this lens, it will probably become one of your favorites for a long time to come. Using proper long lens technique, stand between two of the tripod legs so you can follow the subject without tripping over a leg. The ed glass allowed superb optical quality in a superspeed long lens. Heres a list of emount fullframe and super 35 cine lenses for video filmmakers and cinematographers using sony emount mirrorless cameras, camcorders and video cameras.

Project by project, owen illustrates and decodes his philosophy and approach to design invention and problem solving. The greater the focal length, the greater the effective magnification of the image. Black art of massaging the merit function optimize for all image locations all wavelengths all apertures. Kenneth lee gallery a few favorite large format lenses.

Design of wide angle and large aperture optical system. Long focus lenses are relatively simple to design, the challenges being. Lens curvature, width, position, type of glass some can be fixed, other vary with focal length, focus e. Before you faint from sticker shock, bear in mind that cine lenses. Lenses for design describes and explains the unique, creative process of american industrial designer and educator, josh owen. Chapter 16 handbook of optics photonics research group. It is possible to simulate dolly moves and keep the focus throughout but, because the long lens foreshorten the distance, you have to cover a lot of distance to make the slightest change to the image. The curvature of the lens or mirror surface determines the focal length. Theory is limited to a minimum, and used to support the practical design work. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our.