Thursday, October 16, 2008

Aperture Assignment

Three things I learned about Aperture:
1) the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.
2) The Diaphragm acts similar to the Iris of the eye and controls the aperture.
3) Reducing the aperture size increases the depth of field.

1 comment:

MrReederCPFA said...

Very good. #2 is a good illustration of how the aperture works. If your iris did not get smaller when outside in bright light, your brain would be over exposed, and that would be painful.