Re: diffraction curiosity questions

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<4efc8d32-bce7-49bb-943e-27be6fcdfbc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
murrayatuptowngallery@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am curious about diffraction's role in photographic imaging, if any.
That's my background, with some physics from an engineering
curriculum. SO I hope to understand replies, just lack enough
education to my question myself. I'm not in the sci.optics filed, so I
realize there is some inherent ignorance in my questions.

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You ask many good questions that I cannot and will not answer in this
kind of a forum. It is something you have to lern for yourself with
possibly some guidance in this forum.

The diffraction theory of imaging is described in books like Born and
Wolf. It uses wave physics and mathematical methods, especially those of
integral calculus. It is not a description of only diffraction effects.
It includes geometrical (ray) optics (no diffraction) but also
describes the diffraction effects sitting on top of the geometrical
optics.

Good luck. Have fun.

Bill
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