“Basic Optics and Optical Instruments”

This makes a good read if you ever wondered why we pay so much for terrific lenses…

Thanks to Richard Bradbury for passing on this wee gem, who writes;

“A few years ago I was trying to discover more about basic optics, and I came across a document on the web called Basic Optics & Optical Instruments. It’s not the widely known book of the same name (Carson; 1989), but a typewritten manuscript of a basic optics course. It describes optical phenomena in simple terms, and I occasionally refer to my pdf copy still, which I can always edit using a sodapdf software for this. Unfortunately it has no authors names on the cover and no publishing details, and I can’t remember where I found it. It’s available on my Google Drive to those with this link.

If anyone knows anything more about who wrote it I’d be happy to learn.”

Richard Bradbury
Focus Puller
London, UK