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Old July 12th, 2004, 10:55 AM   #1
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book on optics?

hi- I was wondering if anyone knows of any good books on optics?
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Old July 12th, 2004, 10:59 AM   #2
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Can you be more specific?
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Old July 12th, 2004, 07:27 PM   #3
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well, I'd love to be, but I dont really know where to start. I am building an agus35 and someone remarked it is important to have a good understanding of optics to do that project. I figure I need the Information anyways, and would like a book concerning the basics and how to apply it to photography.
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Old July 14th, 2004, 10:35 PM   #4
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Edmunds Scientific is probably a good place to start.
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Old July 18th, 2004, 06:44 PM   #5
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"Applied photographic optics; third edition" by sigmund ray will explain anything and everything you ever wanted to know on camera lenses. The book is very very thorough to the point that it costs ~150$. So this thing is no children's book-> 680 pages, published in 2002. You said that you just wanted to learn the basics, so this might be a little overkill for you...but i did a paper while back on lenses and found that there aren't too many books that say much of anything about lenses.
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Old September 21st, 2004, 05:50 PM   #6
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Hi Mike. Do you by chance have a link to "Applied Photographics Optics..."? I googled and didn't exactly get anything.
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Old September 21st, 2004, 05:57 PM   #7
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Oop, never mind about the link. Got it. Focal Press, I could have guessed.

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