Camera Lens Performance and Selection - (Latest Revision)

Author: Sha Zhanxiang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is rich in content, innovative in concept, easy to understand, and illustrated with diagrams. It is both rigorous in scientific approach, systematic, informative, and novel, while also possessing high academic and practical value. It is suitable for professional photographers in photography, film, television, and news, as well as amateur photography enthusiasts and related technical and maintenance personnel. It can also serve as a textbook for photography, news, and audiovisual education programs in higher education institutions. The book systematically elaborates on the principles, performance, types, characteristics, selection, and maintenance of various new photographic, cinematic, and television lenses. It is part of the "Photography Optics Series," alongside the books "Techniques for Using Photographic Lenses" and "Performance and Use of Photographic Filters." The book is divided into six chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the basic imaging principles of photographic lenses and their clever applications in photography. Chapter 3 provides an in-depth analysis of the performance indicators of photographic lenses from the perspective of evaluating their quality, as well as their relationship with photographic techniques and the quality of the images captured. It also discusses techniques for leveraging the strengths and mitigating the weaknesses of lenses to fully unleash their potential. Chapter 4 covers the performance characteristics of fisheye, short-focus, standard, telephoto, zoom, and 17 types of special photographic lenses. Chapter 5 introduces the optical structure types and performance of common photographic lenses. Chapter 6 elaborates on the principles, strategies, selection, inspection methods, and proper maintenance of photographic lenses. The book also introduces the performance, features, and prices of over 1,000 new photographic, cinematic, and television lenses produced by dozens of renowned optical companies worldwide.