Re: a book to understand designs

On 8/22/06 2:46 AM, in article
1156239980.944813.14780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Marco"
<marco@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I yet read some books on optics, like ""Modern Optical Engineering" by
W.J.Smith and "Optical System Design" by Fischer among the others more
oriented on astronomical telescope design. Now I'd like to get
something to learn more about how to appoach a design, a book with
design examples explained in detail, I mean what each lens does, why it
has been choosen that way instead of similar diffent solutions, why the
design started from a specific configuration. I'd like to understand
how multi element and multi configurations photographic optics (more
complex that astronomical triplets) work. I know about some part of the
optical theory, but if I would start a design from some specs I would
not know how to.
I saw that "Modern Lens Design" by Smith agin seem to have lots of
examples, but I don't know more than that, so I'd appreciate comments
and suggestions from you.

Thanks in advance,
Marco

From the way your question is framed, it is fairly obvious that you are not
yet prepared to do what you wish. Go to Born and Wolf and understand what
they say about aberrations and then go to more specialized books.

Bill
-- Ferme le Bush


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