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  2. Afocal photography - Wikipedia

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    Afocal photography works with any system that can produce a virtual image of parallel light, for example telescopes and microscopes. Afocal photographic setups work because the imaging device's eyepiece produces collimated light and with the camera's lens focused at infinity, creating an afocal system with no net convergence or divergence in the light path between the two devices. [2]

  3. f-number - Wikipedia

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    The f-number N is given by: = where f is the focal length, and D is the diameter of the entrance pupil (effective aperture).It is customary to write f-numbers preceded by "f /", which forms a mathematical expression of the entrance pupil's diameter in terms of f and N. [1]

  4. Focus (optics) - Wikipedia

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    A principal focus or focal point is a special focus: For a lens , or a spherical or parabolic mirror , it is a point onto which collimated light parallel to the axis is focused. Since light can pass through a lens in either direction, a lens has two focal points – one on each side.

  5. Real image - Wikipedia

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    A real image occurs at points where rays actually converge, whereas a virtual image occurs at points that rays appear to be diverging from. Real images can be produced by concave mirrors and converging lenses, only if the object is placed further away from the mirror/lens than the focal point, and this real image is inverted. As the object ...

  6. Telephoto lens - Wikipedia

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    A simple photographic lens may be constructed using one lens element of a given focal length; to focus on an object at infinity, the distance from this single lens to focal plane of the camera (where the sensor or film is) has to be adjusted to the focal length of that lens. For example, given a focal length of 500 mm, the distance between lens ...

  7. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    The rear focal length f ′ is the distance from the rear principal plane H ′ to the rear focal point F ′. Front focal distance (FFD) The front focal distance (FFD) (s F) is the distance from the front focal point of the system (F) to the vertex of the first optical surface (S 1). [1] [3] Some authors refer to this as "front focal length".

  8. Telecentric lens - Wikipedia

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    Bi-telecentric lens with 208 mm diameter front element and a C-mount camera interface 3D render simulating a photo taken with a fixed focal length and a telecentric lens. A telecentric lens is a special optical lens (often an objective lens or a camera lens) that has its entrance or exit pupil, or both, at infinity.

  9. Hyperfocal distance - Wikipedia

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    The depth of field, and thus hyperfocal distance, changes with the focal length as well as the f-stop. This lens is set to the hyperfocal distance for f /32 at a focal length of 100 mm. In optics and photography, hyperfocal distance is a distance from a lens beyond which all objects can be brought into an "acceptable" focus.