This series of articles provides historical information on lens design for cameras, specifically those using 135 film, but also their SLR and DSLR offspring. Today's mirrorless camera systems allow us to adapt almost any lens from the history of photography. So there has been renewed interest in how families of lenses are related in their optical design.
This series is for readers interested in learning the basics without being overwhelmed by technicalities and mathematics. Here you will find a solid basis for any further readings.
The Lens Design Glossary provides definitions of terms, written to flow from one concept to the next. The first section covers basic lens terminology; the second section provides capsule descriptions of common lens aberrations.
For further reading, and to acknowledge my sources, I provide Lens Design References.
Historically, start with Camera Lenses of the Nineteenth Century.
Then read about the subsequent Development of Symmetrical Lenses.
This series began by investigating the lens naming scheme of Carl Zeiss. Planar / Tessar / Sonnar / Distagon has now been updated to fit with this series.
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