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Summary: A sort of back to the future II
Review: The book title is quite interesting: PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT AND USE OF STOCK LENSES? Did we get what that announces? Unfortunately NO.
It seem than that book is not enough different or even not a complement to be read before, at the same time or after the first Warren J. Smith book ¡°Modern Optical Engineering¡±.I was quite interested by the last chapter: Getting the Most: Out of ¡®Stock¡¯ Lenses. But I did not find a little number of graph advice or what ever extra stuff than present in the first Smith¡¯s book. Without comparing page per page PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT is a sort of ¡°Modern Optical Engineering¡± without substance. I sincerely don¡¯t see what sorts of professional who have advantage to read that. Maybe some college Biology teacher? But I don¡¯t think so. PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT seem to be half the way between a equation book like Schaum¡¯s and what ever you find at the beginning of any optic manufacturer catalogue (like Linos, Mellesgriot and Edmund who you get free by post or by the net). Let¡¯s proof what I said with some example. First of all: if find a mistake at page 168 for the shape factor (k=c1/c1-c1) obviously without sense (but that proof nothing). Second like during all my science education in Smith¡¯s throw away lot of difficult concept without giving you some order what is the most important, what that concept mean! What is MTF, what is Coma, why we can¡¯t use first order optic to design what ever you want. Such simple question need a lot of word, lot of phrase, a lot of paragraph, a lot of example, a lot of graph and a lot of pages. In conclusion, this ouvrage is for me a big deception. And author fail to teach you the ¡°first cut¡± of optical design.
Rating:
Summary: A sort of back to the future II
Review: The book title is quite interesting: PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT AND USE OF STOCK LENSES? Did we get what that announces? Unfortunately NO.
It seem than that book is not enough different or even not a complement to be read before, at the same time or after the first Warren J. Smith book ¡°Modern Optical Engineering¡±. I was quite interested by the last chapter: Getting the Most: Out of ¡®Stock¡¯ Lenses. But I did not find a little number of graph advice or what ever extra stuff than present in the first Smith¡¯s book. Without comparing page per page PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT is a sort of ¡°Modern Optical Engineering¡± without substance. I sincerely don¡¯t see what sorts of professional who have advantage to read that. Maybe some college Biology teacher? But I don¡¯t think so. PRACTICAL OPTICAL SYSTEM LAYOUT seem to be half the way between a equation book like Schaum¡¯s and what ever you find at the beginning of any optic manufacturer catalogue (like Linos, Mellesgriot and Edmund who you get free by post or by the net). Let¡¯s proof what I said with some example. First of all: if find a mistake at page 168 for the shape factor (k=c1/c1-c1) obviously without sense (but that proof nothing). Second like during all my science education in Smith¡¯s throw away lot of difficult concept without giving you some order what is the most important, what that concept mean! What is MTF, what is Coma, why we can¡¯t use first order optic to design what ever you want. Such simple question need a lot of word, lot of phrase, a lot of paragraph, a lot of example, a lot of graph and a lot of pages. In conclusion, this ouvrage is for me a big deception. And author fail to teach you the ¡°first cut¡± of optical design.
Rating: 
Summary: Incomplete.
Review: This book is not complete enough for what it claims to be. A full time lens designer might find it useful as another opinion though.
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