For hundreds of years, the principle behind the telescope has been as simple as it gets: build a lens or mirror to collect a large amount of light, focus that light onto a detector (like an eye, a ...
THE revised edition of Prof. SouthalPs text-book of geometrical optics, in addition to a number of new problems scattered throughout the book, contains an important new chapter at the end of the ...
The technical definition of a telephoto lens is one with a focal length greater (or longer) than 50mm (on the 35mm/full frame forma), but the telephoto range is more generally accepted to begin at ...