Abstract

The performance and aberrations of three aircraft camera lenses, all of about 20-in. focal length and f/6.3 aperture were measured. The performance was assessed in terms of low-contrast photographic resolving power, and the wave front and transverse ray aberrations were determined interferometrically. The interferometer used was a variation of the Twyman and Green instrument, in which the plane of focus for resolving power test and the center of curvature of the reference sphere for interferometry were directly relatable.

© 1955 Optical Society of America

Interferometer Quality and Its Relation to Photographic Resolving Power

Neville Murcott and Hanna S. Gottfried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45(8) 644-646 (1955)

Method of Assessing Objectively the Photographic Resolving Power of a Lens

Hanna T. Gottfried and Neville Murcott
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45(3) 141-145 (1955)

The Relation of Definition to Sharpness and Resolving Power in a Photographic System*

George C. Higgins and Robert N. Wolfe
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45(2) 121-129 (1955)

Effect of Chromatic Aberration on the Resolving Power of Photographic Objectives

Francis E. Washer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(5) 625-629 (1967)

Interferometric Measurement of Wave-Front Aberrations in Gratings and Echelles*

George W. Stroke
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45(1) 30-35 (1955)