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  2. Condenser (optics) - Wikipedia

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    As with objective lenses, a condenser lens with a maximum numerical aperture of greater than 0.95 is designed to be used under oil immersion (or, more rarely, under water immersion), with a layer of immersion oil placed in contact with both the slide/coverslip and the lens of the condenser. An oil immersion condenser may typically have NA of up ...

  3. Lens controller - Wikipedia

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    A lens controller is device that controls motorized photographic lens functions such as zoom, focus, and iris opening . [1] Lens controllers can be found in still camera photographic lenses and as stand-alone units in machine vision, remote sensing, optoelectronics systems, and security applications.

  4. Aperture - Wikipedia

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    A camera aperture Definitions of Aperture in the 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova [1] Aperture icon. In optics, the aperture of an optical system (including a system consisted of a single lens) is a hole or an opening that primarily limits light propagated through the system.

  5. Pupil function - Wikipedia

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    The pupil function or aperture function describes how a light wave is affected upon transmission through an optical imaging system such as a camera, microscope, or the human eye. More specifically, it is a complex function of the position in the pupil [ 1 ] or aperture (often an iris ) that indicates the relative change in amplitude and phase ...

  6. List of abbreviations in photography - Wikipedia

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    Hardware and software ("firmware"), built into the camera, measures luminance of the subject and automatically sets shutter speed, lens aperture or sensitivity; this also allows the camera to set the aperture for manual lenses fixed with an AE chip. [4] AE-L or AEL: Automatic exposure lock. Technology for holding an exposure setting from one ...

  7. Optical resolution - Wikipedia

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    The ability of a lens to resolve detail is usually determined by the quality of the lens, but is ultimately limited by diffraction.Light coming from a point source in the object diffracts through the lens aperture such that it forms a diffraction pattern in the image, which has a central spot and surrounding bright rings, separated by dark nulls; this pattern is known as an Airy pattern, and ...

  8. Photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    The role of the aperture is to control the amount of light passing through the lens to the film or sensor plane. An aperture placed outside of the lens, as in the case of some Victorian cameras, risks vignetting of the image in which the corners of the image are darker than the centre. A diaphragm too close to the image plane risks the ...

  9. Objective (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Camera photographic objective, focal length 50 mm, aperture 1:1.4 Camera lenses (usually referred to as "photographic objectives" instead of simply "objectives" [ 4 ] ) need to cover a large focal plane so are made up of a number of optical lens elements to correct optical aberrations .