Links

Photographic optics

The world wide web offers a fair amount of information on the optical aspects of photography. A selection of links is presented below.

If you don't mind a site riddled with advertisements, Bob Atkins will explain optical phenomena in plain language.

David Jacobsen's classic lens tutorial and nearly impeccable lens faq have been around for more than ten years.

Douglas A. Kerr has a collection of professionally illustrated pdf articles.

Green is for geeks. Norman Koren explains resolution and MTF, among other things, on either of his Imatest or personal pages.

Look for the enjoyable "Theory of the no-parallax point in panorama photography" by Rik Littlefield.

Fellow underwater acoustician Harold M. Merklinger presents an insightful description of depth of field, bokeh, and much more.

The abundance of plain text accessible via Robert Monaghan's medium format articles page is overwhelming. If you don't find what you are looking for, you will certainly find something else.

Leica addict Erwin Puts is concerned with image quality in the finest details.

Ronald Parr's digital photography faq answers tons of questions digital photographers once asked, and will ask in the future.

The site of Polish American Andrzej Wrotniak is worth exploring for his notes on technical aspects of photography, and a variety of other pages.

The Carl Zeiss Camera Lens News archives. In between the announcements of new products there is useful information of more general interest.