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Telephoto Lens
To photograph a distant subject large, you need a long focal length - and a long lens means a long camera. In 1891 Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer in London, and Adolf Miethe in Germany, independently put a negative lens behind a positive one. The pair acts like a single lens of much longer focal length, yet it is physically shorter than that focal length. That is what 'telephoto' means, and nearly every long camera lens since uses it.
**No patent number is cited here**: Dallmeyer patented it in Britain, and no US patent for his design was verified, so none is claimed.
**You build one on an optical bench**, measure its focal length from the size of a distant image, and let a ray-trace notebook redesign it.
Débutant
90 minutes
Consignes
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Know your lenses
Know your lenses
Focus a distant window onto paper with each convex lens; the lens-to-paper distance is its focal length. Pick one about 100 mm. Take a concave lens about half that (its label gives it; it will not focus alone).
Matériaux pour cette étape :
Jeu de lentilles convergentes1 jeu
Lentille concave1 pièceOutils nécessaires :
Règle en acier2
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Set up the bench
Set up the bench
Mount the convex lens in a holder at one end of the bench, pointing out of a window at something far away. Tape tracing paper to a holder as the screen.
Matériaux pour cette étape :
Rouleau de papier calque à patrons1 feuille
Ruban de masquage1 rouleauOutils nécessaires :
Banc et rail d'optique
Jeu de porte-lentilles3
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Image with one lens
Image with one lens
Slide the screen until the far scene is sharp. Measure the height of one chosen feature on the screen - a window, a chimney.
Outils nécessaires :
Règle en acier4
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Add the negative lens
Add the negative lens
Put the concave lens 60 mm behind the convex one. The image is now far behind; move the screen back until it is sharp again and measure the same feature. Try 55 and 65 mm spacing too.
Outils nécessaires :
Mètre ruban5
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Design it on paper
Design it on paper
Chargement du notebook Jupyter…
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History & Context
History & Context
**What the 1891 designs did:** a positive front group and a negative rear group, spaced so the system focal length exceeds its length. **Modern build (derived):** two stock lenses on a bench.
Early telephoto attachments screwed behind ordinary lenses; modern long lenses build the idea in. Its limits: spacing is critical, the negative group adds distortion (pincushion), and the image is dimmer at the same aperture diameter because the focal length grew.
Matériaux
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Outils requis
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- Banc et rail d'optique10 % de commissionEspace réservé
- Jeu de porte-lentilles10 % de commissionEspace réservé
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