The world wide web offers a fair amount of information on the optical aspects
of photography. A selection of links is presented below.
Riddled with adware,
Bob Atkins' site
explains 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.
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