Under construction, Added 3-4-2015 by S. Sparrold Instead of starting an optical design from scratch, commercial optics or plane parallel plates, one can begin from a pre-existing optical design. My favorite graph for understanding this is from Smith's "Modern Lens design", he has a graph of F/# versus FoV and has bubble charts for different design configurations. If you don't have the book, this website is a good starting point. Find your starting configuration by:
Here are some of my quick reference notes on how to build some basic configurations: Petzval lens
Telephoto and inverse telephoto lenses |