Lenses for design describes and explains the unique, creative process of american industrial designer and educator, josh owen. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how each available degree of freedom is used to control one aberration. Parameters include surface profile types spherical, aspheric, holographic, diffractive, etc. Jan, 2009 the leica lens compendium by irwin puts, published by hove books, is one of the most valuable photographic books that i have added to my library in recent years. A large part of this book is devoted to a study of possible design procedures for various types of lens or mirror systems, with fully worked examples of each.
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. Every step from setup specifications to finalizing the design for production is discussed in a straight forward, tangible way. Introduced in 1902, it was created by paul rudolph, from carl zeiss. They say, dont judge a book by its cover, and this would be a good book to prove that old saying true. Lens design optical sciences and applications of light 1st edition. A practical guide to lens design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. Introduction to lens design with practical zemax examples by.
Handbook of optical design optical science and engineering. The handbook of optics, from the optical society of america, is a tremendously valuable resource for all optics practitioners each chapter is a great introduction for a specific optics subspecialti. Filled with sage advice and completely illustrated, lens design, fourth edition supplies handson guidance for the initial design and final optimization for a plethora of commercial, consumer, and specialized optical systems. It teaches how a satisfactory design can be obtained in a straightforward way. With practical zemax examples edition 1 available in. I preordered this book, based only on the title, when amazon recommended it to me based on my past purchases of photography books. It was a runnerup for the 1966 hugo award for best alltime series the winner was the foundation series by isaac asimov. In pantheon of lens manufacturers there are the wellknowns such as leitz and zeiss, but i think schneiderkreuznach deserves to be right up there along with them. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading lens design, third edition, optical science and engineering book 27. Precise mathematical equations create a cutting path on the lens that combines the prescription and the progressive design together into vision ease progressive digital designs.
Lens design fundamentals, second edition, is the most comprehensive treatise to be published on the subject of lens design. First it is an extremely high quality 4element design, and stays with a conservative 0. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. There are also many useful figures to help visualize the main issuesconsiderations of lens design. Explanation of triplets from fundamental optical design. Half of its content is devoted to the design of sixteen types of lenses, described in detail from beginning to end.
Books we recommend for optical design opticalsoftware. Modern lens design mcgrawhill professional engineering. 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. Conrady in applied optics and optical design and rudolph kingslake in lens design fundamentals, first edition. The construction concept has found applications from large format down to minox size. 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. Lens design fundamentals, second edition 2010 kingslake. Because large format lenses have been manufactured over a long period of time, models and brands still circulate in the used market that were made by illustrious design houses of yore. Lens design fundamentals edition 2 by rudolf kingslake, r. This book holds a unique place in the optics literature.
We can see that for each of the even aberrations, s 1, s 3, s 4, and c 1, the outer, positive lenses have a positive coefficient, and the inner, negative, lens has a negative coefficient. Some others have fewer elements and try for much higher ratios like 0. A course in lens design is an instruction in the design of imageforming optical systems. Theory is limited to a minimum, and used to support the practical design work. No computer design info in this edition, if you need to design a specialty lens, get the second edition which would have one more star. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how. Lenses using tessars design reached the order of millions of units and equipped all kinds of cameras.
The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how each available degree of freedom is used to control. The book introduces geometrical optics, optical instruments and aberrations. Design a modern optical system requires the integration of expertise in widely different fields such as, lens design, thermal and mechanical analysis. Rudolf kingslake 19032003 is widely considered to be the father of lens design in the united states. The book begins with an outline of the general process before delving into aberrations, basic lens design forms, and optimization.
The tessar is a famous photographic lens design conceived by the german physicist paul rudolph in 1902 while he worked at the zeiss optical company and patented by zeiss in germany. Featuring over 700 references, equations, tables, and drawings, this highly lauded and bestselling reference emphasizes practical designs of over 30 lens systems, including singleelement, twoelement achromats, airspaced triplets, projection lenses, and sophisticated wideangle and zoom lenses. On february 2021, 2020, we gathered for the third time to discuss the latest trends and tackle the industrys biggest challenges. This book is different from most other books on lens. Project by project, owen illustrates and decodes his philosophy and approach to design invention and problem solving. In lens design with large computers, proceedings of the conference, institute of optics, government superintendent, rochester, new york. He was the author of modern optical engineering, modern lens design, and practical optical system layout and use of stock lenses. 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 video games. Anyone can master the fundamentals of game designno technological expertise is necessary. Design examples of several widely used modern lenses are provided. In 1958, kingslake and wife hilda edited an unfinished manuscript by conrady and published a sequel to conradys book, applied optics and optical design. Written by respected researchers, the book has been extensively classroom tested and developed in their lens design courses. The introduction of the computer revolutionized the way lenses optical systems are designed and evaluated.
It is easy to read and covers hundreds of lenses in greater or lesser detail, with a useful index of lenses at the back. Tessar is probably the lens design most produced ever. We learned how great design, great research, and profitability convergethrough four keynote presentations, six panels, 4 trend moments with industry leading building product companies, three lively roundtables, and hours of networking discussions. Optical lens design is the process of designing a lens to meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and manufacturing limitations. In this book, rudolf kingslake traces the historical development of the various types of lenses from daguerres invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used today. Net books we recommend for optical design video how tos, hint, tips and secrets for lens design software from qioptiq linos photonics optical design is a highly complex subject. Lens design, third edition, optical science and engineering.
Thus, he is ideally suited to write an uptodate edition of lens design fundamentals. Kodak, zeiss, goerz, wollensak, cooke, voigtlander, bausch and lomb, dallmeyer, ilex, meyer, pinkham and smith, etc. Field guide to lens design spie press field guide fg27. Mostly canon 35mm lens diagramsillustrations and their mtf graphs, but there is a small section on optical design and lens aberrations that is well done for the novice, and is well illustrated. It is a book that every photographer interested in lenses and optical theory should immediately add to his or her collection, whether they are a leica owner or not.
Any other suggestions on how to show lens tints in a way that looks profesional. It adds impressive building blocks to the foundation established by a. Nov 10, 2019 home file exchange site for lens designs. The book is an excellent resource for mechanical and optomechanical engineers who design systems that contain optics. Barry johnson is a disciple of conrady and kingslake, and who has a deep background in lens design theory as a professor of optics and many years of experience as a practicioner in the real world of lens design. This spie field guide provides a working reference for practicing physicists, engineers, and scientists for deciphering the nuances of basic lens design. From an early lens still being manufactured for use in lowcost cameras to designs made possible through such innovations as lens. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the united states.
As regards the content, this book is an excellent introduction to the history of the photographic lens. A tessar comprises four elements in three groups, one positive crown glass element at the front, one negative flint glass element at the center and a negative planoconcave flint glass element cemented with a positive convex crown glass element at the rear. Lens design, third edition, optical science and engineering book 27 kindle edition by laikin, milton. Based on personal experience, this book gives enough information on practical lens design for the optical novice to design one. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle. I am looking for few new lens tint books, the kind you show patients how each type of tint looks. As an example, contributions of each of the lenses in a thin lens design are listed in table 10. The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part of any camera. In spite of that, a lot of lens design books and textbooks that i have read rely heavily on the derivations of mathematical equations, without actual lens design data and figures and graphs, especially lens design diagrams.
A course in lens design springer series in optical sciences. Kenneth lee gallery a few favorite large format lenses. A schematic diagram is not good enough in my opinion, i want to see the rays passing through the system. But all of these software packages share one critical flaw. Lens design optical sciences and applications of light. The book not only covers theory of lens design but the author also delves into the math using practical examples. Delving deep into the mechanics of lens design, optics legend warren j. Optical engineers working in lens design will find this book an invaluable guide to lens design in traditional and emerging areas of application, it is also suited to advanced undergraduate or graduate course in lens design principles and as a selflearning tutorial and reference for the practitioner. The lensman series is a series of science fiction novels by american author edward elmer doc smith. Digital lens designs customized lenses vision ease. Smith reveals timetested methods for designing topquality lenses.
This book is different from most other books on lens design because it stresses the importance of the initial phases of the design process. Popular critical lens books showing 8 of 38 this changes everything. Practical computeraided lens design by gregory hallock smith. Using single point diamond turning and a propriety digital design system, exact surface heights are cut at thousands of points on the lens back surface.
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