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Depth of field microscopeformula

Diverging (spreading) light rays are made parallel by the first convex lens. The second convex lens angles the parallel rays so that they converge—meet or focus—at a certain point, called the focal point.

This type of lens is thicker in the center than at the edge. Parallel rays of light entering it on one side will converge (meet) at a particular spot on the other side of the lens. Magnifying glasses and microscopes use convex lenses.

When focusing to short distances, the depth of field will be relatively small. When focusing to larger distances, it increases, and one eventually reaches the hyperfocal distance where the maximum distance becomes infinity. That is the situation where the depth of focus is the largest possible.

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Diverging light rays are made parallel by a convex lens. But when the parallel light rays pass through a concave lens, they diverge (spread out) again.

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When you look through a magnifying glass, or take a picture with a camera, you are using a lens. A lens is a polished piece of glass or transparent plastic with curved surfaces. There are two main shapes of lenses, CONVEX and CONCAVE.

A concave lens is thinner at the center than at the edge. Parallel light rays passing into one side of the lens diverge (spread out) as they emerge from the other side.

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A microscope makes a tiny, nearby object look much bigger. A telescope makes a large, distant object or scene appear much closer and brighter. In both instruments, light from the object passes through two or more lenses to form an image. The shapes of the lenses and the distances between them alter the image that is produced.

As is well known in photography, the depth of field can be increased by reducing the diameter of the aperture stop, which at the same time decreases the image brightness (or requires a correspondingly longer exposure time).

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Note that the above equations hold only for small angles; that condition is usually reasonably well fulfilled in photography, for example, but not for microscopes.

A magnifying glass makes an object look bigger. Holding it close to an object makes a virtual image of the object form on the same side of the glass as the object. When you look through the magnifying glass, this virtual object seems to be larger than the real one. The thicker the lens, the larger the virtual image.

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For a quantitative definition of the depth of field, one requires a criterion for what level of defocus is acceptable. Different criteria may be sensible, depending on the situation:

The presented equations hold only within the validity of geometrical optics, which is however usually given in the context of photography.

The width of the range of observation distances is called the depth of field. It must not be confused with the depth of focus, which is the corresponding quantity on the image side.

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Most imaging instruments can provide sharp images only in a limited range of observation distances. Perfect imaging to a certain image plane (e.g., the location of an image sensor in a photo camera) is only possible for an object plane which is conjugate to the image plane. Image of objects before or after that conjugate object plane will be blurred to some extent. (An exception is the rarely used camera obscura.)

Definition: the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that can be imaged with reasonably sharp focus for a given focus setting

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If you are nearsighted, your eye lens focuses a scene just in front of the retina in your eye and the image you see is blurred. A concave lens spreads out the light rays before they enter the eye, so that they are focused on the retina and the image is sharp.

where <$D$> is the diameter of the aperture stop. It is assumed that we have a thin lens, where the entrance and exit pupil coincide with the lens. The depth of field is the difference between maximum and minimum distance.

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A lens changes the direction of light waves by refraction. It may form an image of a scene or an object. The image might be smaller (as in a camera), or larger (as in a microscope). Because a lens is curved, light rays strike different parts of its surface and are bent by different amounts. Depending on the lens shape, a beam of light either diverges (spreads out) or converges (concentrates).

Here we use the second kind of defocus criterion as explained above, with a maximum diameter <$C$> of the circle of confusion, as calculated from purely geometrical optics. One then obtains the following equations for the nearest and furthest observation distance, when the focus is set to the distance <$d_\textrm{f}$>: