Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] apo definitions
From: "Doug Herr" <Dherr@energy.state.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:03:36 -0800

Donal Philby wrote:

>>>
I assume the APO becomes more important the larger the aperture (deep
DOF masks non-APO qualities??)
<<<

Yes and no.  For longitudinal chromatic abberations, yes.  For lateral chromatic errors which shows up as color fringing, more DOF is no help.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuerve.com/homepages/telyt