Cameras and Film

Topics:

• Properties of cameras -- field of view, depth of field, motion blur, exposure
• The measurement equation
• Paraxial (thin-lens) approximations
• Thin lens equation
• Vergence
• Focal length
• Relationship between lenses and the perspective transformation
• Specifying real lenses
• Thick-lens approximation
• Depth of field
• The circle of confusion
• Simulating focus in a raytracer
• Ray tracing through real lens systems
• Field of view
• Perspective distortion in wide-angle lenses
• Film irradiance
• F-stops
• Exposure