Georg N. Nyman
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Georg N. Nyman |
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Tutorials on Optics, Photography, Microscopy and Imaging Hundreds of books and magazines focus on those topics - Optics, Photography, Microscopy and Imaging but it is rather time-consuming to read the most important articles. Even if one has got the time to read the most important publications, it is not easy to separate the essential information from the nice-to-know one. Many well known photographers offer courses on photography - I do not want to compete with them. Some are offering courses on special techniques - either on the front-end, where the image is taken or on the back-end, where the image is printed. There are also an abundance of classes available on image manipulation - I do not want to compete with any of them either, what I want to offer is (hopefully) not yet readily available online. My focus is on the equipment and its components - optical glass, lenses, diaphragms, shutters, films,....etc. as well as on the theory of conventional classical optics - why is a lens forming an image, what are aberrations and how do they influence the final outcome, what is the aperture plane and the field plane and why is it important to know about them, what is vignetting, what is the reciprocity failure etc. etc. Several years ago, I have held similar lectures at the Technical University Vienna/Austria and had been concentrating primarily on optical microscopy and furthermore on photographic optics. Here and now, I would like to concentrate primarily on photographic imaging systems - this can be a snapshot camera for $9.99 but also a Leica M7 for $3500,00. These optical systems are often called "resolution limited". I shall of course explain later what this term means. If time permits and interest exists, I would later extend the tutorials into the area of "diffraction limited" optics - there you can find the large research microscopes like the (unfortunately discontinued) Reichert Polyvar and the Zeiss Axiomat. Please feel free to make suggestions regarding what you like to read, to see and understand. And if you do not like something, let me know - the more I dig into optics and try to really understand it, the more I find out what abundance of knowledge I am still missing.... I would like to add another comment to this page - the tutorials have been written originally in German and by just translating them into English, it would not be the proper approach. I therefore have to rewrite and re-compose all of them in English - quite some work and this needs a lot of time. The German version of that course on Applied Optics was accompanied by several hundred pages of written course material and several hundred of pictures, scans, images and references. Please be patient, I will continue writing these tutorials and if you find something wrong in them, let me know - I will look it up and make the appropriate corrections. An other important remark: All pictures, photos, drawings, sketches, tables and obviously copied material are under copyright by the original author and must neither be copied nor duplicated without the written permission of the primary and original author and producer. The mentioned material is for educational purpose only and none whatsoever profit or income is made, has been made or will be made by using or displaying them. As soon as the list of books and other publications which was and is used to compile these tutorials will be complete, this list will be added to this website. It will then be possible to ask for written permission to use the mentioned study aids by referring to the relevant tutorial and picture/drawing etc.
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