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    Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the...
    25 KB (3,178 words) - 08:04, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Optical aberration
    I'. These degrees, named by J. Petzval the numerical orders of the image, are consequently only odd powers; the condition for the formation of an image...
    58 KB (8,720 words) - 01:47, 17 September 2024
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    miniatures, was in use for about two years before it was replaced by Petzval's Portrait lens, which gave larger and sharper images. Antoine Claudet had...
    112 KB (12,836 words) - 04:32, 19 October 2024
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    D-line (589.2 nm) are f1 and f2, then best correction occurs for the condition: f 1 ⋅ V 1 + f 2 ⋅ V 2 = 0 {\displaystyle f_{1}\cdot V_{1}+f_{2}\cdot...
    21 KB (2,505 words) - 05:55, 16 August 2024
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    produced telescope objectives by calculation in 1819, and Josef Maximilian Petzval had done the same for the camera objective in Vienna with Johann Friedrich...
    35 KB (4,953 words) - 08:15, 20 August 2024
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    length. Beginning with the KH-4 satellites, these lenses were replaced with Petzval f/3.5 lens. The lenses were panoramic, and moved through a 70° arc perpendicular...
    81 KB (5,881 words) - 19:41, 23 September 2024
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    SMC Pentax-FA 85mm f/2.8 SOFT (PK) SMC Pentax 67 Soft 120mm f/3.5 (P67) Petzval portrait (4×5+) Seibold Dreamagon 90mm f/4 Sima Soft Focus 100mm f/2 (T)...
    38 KB (3,398 words) - 23:29, 20 September 2024