Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Compendium Review
From: Ext-Peter.Sikking@nokia.com
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:48:59 +0300

- --> This book is my first introduction to lens
- --> aberrations, and because of the shaky physics
- --> I do not have the feeling I can trust him on
- --> this subject.

- --What specific errors in physics did you encounter in the book?

I said shaky (as in out of his depth), not wrong.

One example that really sticks in my mind is where he introduces
a definition of a flux (= net flow of something through a _surface_)
to jump to this apparent law that for a given focal length, the
_volume_ of the tube devided by the square of the max aperiture is
constant. That law may be true, but I am not convinced, yet.

	--ps/032

Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Compendium Review)