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Synthrays: lens design simulation TOP!
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:52 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:52 am
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Make your own lens design and test it!

http://synthrays.blogspot.com
http://nagykrisztian.com/synthrays/synthrays.html

About: http://nagykrisztian.com/synthrays

I find this program really cool. Nevertheless there are just a few basic designs to be loaded. So if some of members here would join the efforts we could broaden the base...


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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:44 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:44 am
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Cool. Will give it a try as soon as I find the time.


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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:51 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:51 am
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Qioptics (ex Rodenstock) has since years winlens available http://www.winlens.de/
but thanks for sharing...


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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:37 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:37 am
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Really interesting software, I always though that kind of app was only designed for professional.

Thanks for sharing !


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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:57 pm
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ManuallyYours wrote:
Really interesting software, I always though that kind of app was only designed for professional.
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This software is far from that lens-designers use.
Monochrome lens design is pretty useless for normal photography. It helps for understanding, but you can not design a good useable lens for visible spectrum with this software alone.

See more about lens design software:
http://www.optenso.com/links/links.html
There are evaluation versions / open source / freeware lens design programms, like Opus, ados, KDP-2

For me it seems Code-V, Zemax - and for reflections und such Lighttools are very common lens desing programs.

Last edited by ZoneV on Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:45 am; edited 1 time in total


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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:53 pm
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interesting discussion:) thanks for info guys


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Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:58 pm
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:58 pm
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I always forget how to use this thing after a month or so.

Also, I think he owns anything anyone designs.


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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:33 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:33 pm
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this is very useful as an educational tool. thank you.
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