{"id":928,"date":"2010-01-29T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:39:07","slug":"lens-design-is-not-trivial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/photography\/lens-design-is-not-trivial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens design is not trivial"},"content":{"rendered":"

I created this to help explain why lens design is so complex. This is a trivial illustration, but it touches on a FEW of the key principles that explain why designing lenses is really a years long process. I’d love any feedback you may have on the subject. If you know more about lens design than me (and you have a degree or achievement to back it up), then please correct me where I’m wrong. My knowledge, while more than most, is still highly limited.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

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*Bonus points to anyone who can name the camera company that misleads their customers by selling extreme fast lenses (e.g. f\/1.2) which can never be tack sharp wide open at certain focus distances <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I created this to help explain why lens design is so complex. This is a trivial illustration, but it touches on a FEW of the key principles that explain why designing lenses is really a years long process. I’d love any feedback you may have on the subject. If you know more about lens design […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[20,28,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-eY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}