Continuing the bestselling tradition of the authors previous books, lens design, fourth edition is still the most complete and reliable guide for detailed design information and procedures for a wide range of optical systems. The knowledge and skills achieved in this course will prepare participants for advanced level study in optical design. As i described in a paper at the 2014international optical design conference, this class of optics is interesting be they are of a reasonable complexity that the designs are likely to be instructive, they offer a small range of design constraints because of the standardization. Textbooks for your course may be purchased from any vendor or bookseller of your choice. A course in lens design is an instruction in the design of imageforming optical. Theory is limited to a minimum, and used to support the practical design work. A book of lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making topquality videogames. Just like a telescope, photographic objective, or any other optical device, ophthalmic lenses are designed to maximize performance. Design by albrecht wilhelm tronnier for voigtlander zeiss. The symmetry of the system and the splitting of the optical power into many elements reduces the. Use this book along with julie bentleys online course.
From simple thin lens design, clear overview of optical aberrations, designing in zemax and professional production and tolerancing, this book can take you from start to finish in the world of optical engineering. Cosina calls this the voigtlander ultron 40mm f2 slii aspherical. I actually have the original box, rear cap, and front cap for this lens, which are all quite rare too. The design of photographic lenses for use in still or cine cameras is intended to produce a lens that yields the most acceptable rendition of the subject being photographed within a range of constraints that include cost, weight and materials. Design a modern optical system requires the integration of expertise in widely different fields such as, lens design, thermal and mechanical analysis, sensors, etc. Introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples by. I have used zemax, pyzdde, and ipython notebook for creating these notes. Regardless, it carries with it quite a bit of good advice and theory on many aspects of making games. There was a 100mm telomar, and eventually a 35mm f3. Optical design of ophthalmic lenses introduction we tend to prescribe ophthalmic lenses as though any lens with the right back vertex power will do.
As an example, contributions of each of the lenses in a thinlens design are listed in table 10. I do not have the lens hood, which is a rubber design, but may pick one up some day. She has spent much of her career teaching software based optical design and analysis courses to more than 5000 students worldwide. This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the united states. In spite of that, a lot of lens design books and textbooks that i have read rely heavily on the. It is perhaps this reason that finding vitomatics with. This is not, however, a beginner book, in my opinion. My notes from the book introduction to lens design by.
The people at lightmachinery are veterans of the laser and optics world with many years of experience in the areas of optical design, high power lasers, optical fabrication, laser systems, metrology, thin film coatings and custom machinery fabrication. There are also many useful figures to help visualize the main issuesconsiderations of lens design. All are for folded zooms, which provide an interesting study. Unlike the first edition, which was more a collection of lens designs for use in larger projects, the 2nd edition of modern lens design is an optical howto. Usa, the voigtlander ultron 50mm f2 on the voigtlander vitessa 1951, west. Moskow, lubitel, sputnik, estafeta, smena, vesna, kiev, fed up to fed3, zorki, zenit up to. Ray optics and optical instruments 311 this case is to be taken as normal to the tangent to surface at the point of incidence. As an example, contributions of each of the lenses in a thin lens design are listed in table 10.
The book not only covers theory of lens design but the author also delves into the math using practical examples. The book includes detailed instructions to repair the following cameras. 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, in a brief time on a modern fast pc compared to traditional tools that. From simple thin lens design, clear overview of optical aberrations, designing in zemax and professional production and tolerancing, this book can. Made by ricoh in japan, this was the first autofocus lens made to work with any manualfocus. This is definitely something to read if youve already started designing a game, or have some experience in game design. This practical, handson course will provide you with the fundamental principles in optical lens design.
That is, the normal is along the radius, the line joining the centre of curvature of the mirror to the point of incidence. Lens design optical sciences and applications of light. If you find this page as helpful as a book you might have had to buy or a. The pros and the cons blue contacts,discount contact lenses,eye lenses,prescription colored contacts the art of game design. Its styled like a traditional leica m rangefinder and brings a host of updates to the hugely popular original leica q typ 116 that was launched in 2015. Automatic and quasiautonomous computational methods and techniques is the first book that interactively describes the newest modern lens design tools. The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. Products purchased from third party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements. Although i have taken a great deal of effort to assure accuracy, the user of any of. Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design no technological expertise is necessary. Zoom lens design of mobilephone camera with globalexplorer optimization chaoyu hung and jyhlong chern department of photonics, institut e of electrooptical engineering microelectronic and information system research center national chiaotung university, hsinchu, taiwan, 30050, r. A complete breakdown of the double gauss lens design and the sonnar lens. In lens design with large computers, proceedings of the conference, institute of optics, government superintendent, rochester, new york.
Zoom lens design of mobilephone camera with globalexplorer. This lens has much less astigmatism than either conventional triplets or tessars and can. The double gauss lens consists of two backtoback gauss lenses a design with a. As i described in a paper at the 2014international optical design conference, this class of optics is interesting be they are of a reasonable complexity that the designs are likely to be instructive, they offer a small range of design constraints because of the standardization of cmos imager sizes. He never published a book or scientific papers of his lens design process and. Introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples pdf.
Ultron cosplay mask is printed by hero complex props this awesome ultron mask was assembled using a printer if you dont already know who ultron is, my friends have assured me that you should. Field guide to lens design 2012 bentley publications spie. A book of lenses by jesse schell in chm, rtf, txt download ebook. Introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and dont forget to bookmark and share the love. Optics basics are introduced and basic functions of zemax are described. A practical guide to lens design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. An introduction to theories and models eye contacts, lasik eye surgery, or eyeglasses. Nex3 with 50mm f2 ultron lens from voigtlander prominent. Its a really nice lens that delivers good pictures, is goodlooking in itself, and i particularly enjoy its ability to literally snap into focus through the viewfinder hard to explain, but with this lens even compared to 50mm and 55mm f1.
We have already studied that the geometric centre of a spherical mirror is called its pole while. Field guide to lens design 2012 bentley publications. Participants will learn how to design various lenses from simple landscape lens to the complex triplet. The percival philosophy is similar to that used in modern spectacle lens design. Explanation of triplets from fundamental optical design. The basic lens design forms are in here, and we can take a deep look into the development of lens design. Takumar, tessar, ultron, xenotar, zuiko the list goes on and on. The double gauss lens consists of two backtoback gauss lenses a design with a positive meniscus lens on the object side and a negative meniscus lens on the image side making two positive meniscus lenses on the outside with two negative meniscus lenses inside them. If you find this page as helpful as a book you might have had to buy or a workshop you. Made in extremely limited quantities was a very expensive wide angle called the ultragon.
While the ultron is a more advanced 6element design, other than the additional stop of exposure, i doubt anyone would be able to detect differences in image quality between shots done with either lens. This repository contains my own notes made from the book introduction to lens design by joseph m. Dont worry about spoilerz until you see my warning image below. It is one of the most sought after classic zeiss lenses. There are two copies of this lens on ebay at the time of writing, averaging at around 500 gbp or 700 usd. Jan 01, 2006 this title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the united states. This edition has been thoroughly updated and contains integral.
The voigtlander 40mm f2 is a manualfocus lens, and has an onboard computer to. But all of these software packages share one critical flaw. Click on document introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples pdf. The earliest camera lenses consisted of a single piece of glass with a. Always apply the right lens first to avoid mixing them up and check the lens is not inside out as shown in the diagrams above. This lens is characterized by a triplet construction followed by a rear element that is strongly meniscusshaped, convex to the image plane. It is perhaps this reason that finding vitomatics with the ultron lens is extremely difficult today. The zemax code in the book is a bit dated by now but most users should be able to still use it for newer editions of the software. Method 1 correct lens has an even cup shape incorrect lens is shallower and more pointed at edges method 2 correct when lens is curled between fingers, lens curls inwards incorrect when lens is. Design examples of several widely used modern lenses are provided. Voigtlander vitomatic iia 1960 mike eckman dot com.
Jun 12, 2014 voigtlander 40mm f2 ultron sl ii handling and features the build and design of this lens is reminiscent of a time lenses were typically made of brass and designed to last longer than you might think. I did not admit this to them, but instead posed the question, you kno. A course in lens design is an instruction in the design of imageforming optical systems. The book introduces geometrical optics, optical instruments and aberrations. It teaches how a satisfactory design can be obtained in a straightforward way. After a very interesting chapter about general camera and lens design, the author clearly explains how to repair different problems that you may have in your soviet cameras. The design is presently used in inexpensivebuthighquality fast lenses such as the sony fe 50mm f 1. This practical guide to lens design is very timely as many young minds strive to gain rapid experience in this expanding field. This voigtlander 28mm f2 lens for leica isnt as sharp as leicas. The double gauss lens is a compound lens used mostly in camera lenses that reduces optical. Simple manual correction does not help with complex issues like this. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. My notes from the book introduction to lens design. An interesting new wideangle lens type is a fourcomponent form found commonly on the socalled compact 35mm cameras.
Penelope przekop 2008 aberrations fiction introduction to lens design. But the not all the lens designs are simple lenses, we will look at newer and important lens design forms as well. Apolanthar a variant of the heliar but with an opposite front group. Not only is this a great book for an optical engineer to have at their fingertips, it is the most concise and informative book to quickly approach the professional use of modern optical software. With practical zemax examples by joseph m geary online at alibris. Fredos full aperture, 5mm why are lenses so complex. The design of a fixed focal length lens also known as prime lenses presents fewer challenges than the design of a zoom lens. For those of you who are interested i can show now the optical 76 design of the zeissrollei planar aka voigtlander colorultron 50mmf1. A highquality prime lens whose focal length is about equal to the diameter of the film frame or sensor may be constructed from as few as four separate lens elements, often as pairs on either side of the aperture diaphragm. This is an ultimate guide of lens design forms, the optical systems that are used in our world. The leica q2 is an impressively capable fixedlens, fullframe camera with a 47mp sensor and a sharp, stabilized 28mm f1.
For many other optical devices such as telescopes, microscopes and theodolites where the visual image is observed but often not. Its not so easy to send light where it should go source. Voigtlander 40mm f2 ultron sl ii handling and features the build and design of this lens is reminiscent of a time lenses were typically made of brass and designed to last longer than you might think. The ultron 1,850 is a fine lens, perhaps even groundbreaking for its time. 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. As usual with a fast lens, the first thing i am interested in checking is how good the performance is wide open and this is the first aspect that really surprised me with the ultron 35mm. Geary, some miscellaneous notes on zemax, and some notes based on zemax knowledgebase articles with proper links and attribution of course. Zoom lens design of mobilephone camera with global. This enables the lens to create a very unique bokeh while still being able to capture a high level of detail. Due to its superior aspherical optical design, the voigtlander 402 is sharp and. Every step from setup specifications to finalizing the design for production is discussed in a straight forward, tangible way. The art of game design a book of lenses jesse schell carnegie mellon university amsterdam boston heidelberg london new york oxford paris san diego san francisco singapore sydney tokyo morgan kaufmann publishers is an imprint of elsevier.