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Petzval field curvature

Index Petzval field curvature

Petzval field curvature, named for Joseph Petzval, describes the optical aberration in which a flat object normal to the optical axis (or a non-flat object past the hyperfocal distance) cannot be brought properly into focus on a flat image plane. [1]

11 relations: Camera lens, Field flattener lens, Film plane, Flat-field correction, Human eye, Hyperfocal distance, Joseph Petzval, Optical aberration, Petzval lens, Photographic plate, Silicon photonics.

Camera lens

A camera lens (also known as photographic lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically.

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Field flattener lens

Field flattener lens is a type of lens used in modern binocular designs (e.g. Canon 10 x 42 L IS WP, 18 x 50 IS All Weather and Swarovski EL 8.5 x 42, EL 10 x 42) and in astronomic telescopes.

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Film plane

A film plane is the area inside any camera or image taking device with a lens and film or digital sensor upon which the lens creates the focused image.

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Flat-field correction

The brightness variation due to vignetting, as shown here, can be corrected by selectively brightening the perimeter of the image. Flat-field correction is a technique used to improve quality in digital imaging.

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Human eye

The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure.

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Hyperfocal distance

In optics and photography, hyperfocal distance is a distance beyond which all objects can be brought into an "acceptable" focus.

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Joseph Petzval

Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 19 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics.

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Optical aberration

Aberration in optics refers to a defect in a lens such that light is not focused to a point, but is spread out over some region of space, and hence an image formed by a lens with aberration is blurred or distorted, with the nature of the distortion depending on the type of aberration.

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Petzval lens

The Petzval objective or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (160mm focal length) in the history of photography; It was developed by the German-Hungarian mathematics professor Josef Maximilian Petzval in 1840 in Vienna, with technical advice provided by, the Voigtländer company went on to build the first Petzval lens in 1840 on behalf of Petzval, and whereupon it became known throughout Europe.

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Photographic plate

Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography.

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Silicon photonics

Silicon photonics is the study and application of photonic systems which use silicon as an optical medium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzval_field_curvature

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