The book is titled "The photographic researches of Ferdinand Hurter & Vero C. Driffield"
You can find used copies in Amazon for $5 + shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/photographic-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297734069&sr=1-1
As I can see we have the same DoF at different apertures in terms of F-stops .
In my point of view it makes no sense to mess up the use of f-stop values. You are right: The absolute diameter of the aperture opening of a 50 mm lens at f/4 and a 100 mm lens at f/8 is the same: 12,5 mm. But there are not many photographers that uses absolute diameters in practice.
The negative format does not play any role for the resolution kept on the film. It is only important for the maximum, still sharp print size that you can later obtain from the negative. So Ralph is right, when he says, that the DoF in terms of resolution is fixed in the negative. But Ralph is not right, if you look from the print format´s point of view. Then the DoF seems not to be locked in the negative and the DoF we observe in the print changes with the enlargement ratio for the print. There is no antagonism or paradox in it.
Best,
Andreas
Andreas
There is nothing wrong with your numbers! Athiril's statement that all of your resolution values are above the diffraction values is not correct. If you take the near-IR threshold of 650 nm, the smaller f/stops are getting close to being borderline, but take the average of 555 nm, and your numbers are just fine. Also, your lens resolutions stated are well within the system performance of good equipment and materials.
Yes, I have the book. Where do I find the quote you mentioned?
There is something SIGNIFICANTLY wrong with them, when f/22 has a diffraction limit 75% that of f/11 and so on.
smallest point = 1.22 (constant) * wavelength * f-number.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction#Diffraction-limited_imaging)
I'm being generous and giving you 450 nm to work with instead.
So average finest lp/mm = (1000 / (1.22 * 0.45 *fn)) / 2
... I'm being generous and giving you 450 nm to work with instead.
So average finest lp/mm = (1000 / (1.22 * 0.45 *fn)) / 2
...
Page 301, second paragraph.
... Ralph's methodology of not isolating what he's claiming is the cause of effect is therefore flawed from the very beginning. It is the same as a person stating focal length affects perspective, and taking a picture of a subject on an 85mm lens, and then moving the camera forward to the subject and filling the frame at the same ratio (exactly the same as aperture ratio, this is how optics work) as the previous picture with a 24mm lens, then claiming "I changed the focal length from 100mm to 24mm and look at the difference in perspective!". This person didn't isolate the claimed cause of the effect, as we know the real cause is the change in distance to subject and ONLY distance to subject, focal length, yet again, has nothing to do with it. ...
Athiril
A49 is correct, you are not using the right equation.
Use resolution = 1/(1.22 * wavelength * N) to get max resolution. Using only mm and 555 nm for green light, it will return 5.8 lp/mm for f/256, which is, as I said, borderline to A49 proposed value.
I hope you can accept this 'pseudo scientist' proposal.
It is an analogy, people often claim focal length controls perspective (like I used to) because they often change subject distance with focal length, as that is typical usage, but not fact of the cause of effect. ...
... Your claim was focal length controls DoF, but you are changing aperture along with it, if you do not change aperture, it doe notchange, therefore focal length is not having an impact on it, changing aperture (maintaining ratio) is typical usage, but it is not fact of the cause of effect. The cause of the effect is aperture. ...
... lp/mm = line pairs per mm. lines/mm should equal the same thing, since the correct thing to do is to assume that it takes 2 lines to define, well 2 lines, 2 lines is going to equal 2 'points' in one direction. Therefore if the number of points per mm is equal to x, then lp/mm must equal to x/2, as 1 line pair = 2 adjacent points of detail. ...
... Focal Length controls field of view alone. ...
"Look at my edited post, A49's values are inconsistent no matter how you use the equation.
(to Athiril)
I get tired and exhausted to say the same things again and again, if you not read them thoroughly enough. ...
The equation 1.22 * wavelength * (focal length/aperture) gives you the diameter of the airy disc, not half the diameter...
The equation 1.22 * wavelength * (focal length/aperture) gives you the diameter of the airy disc, not half the diameter. It is the smallest size of a possible single point, not a pair of points. A line pair is a pair of points. So as I stated, the many of values given by A49 are actually above the diffraction limit.
This is not the central issue however that you are straw-manning.
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