Are there questions pertaining to Mr
Maruyasu's presentation?
a real step forward in the advancement of the aerial photographic art
at this time, since the resolution criterion provided a readily under-
stood means for evaluating improvements.
This very virtue now haunts us.
Resolution seems to be so understandable, that everyone is in-
clined to rationalize its use as a fundamental quality parameter. In the
effort to push for systems of higher resolution Sight has been lost of
the fact that what is really wanted is the capability of recognizing
smaller detail on the ground.
Paradoxically, the idea of resolution, which in the past has been
a major factor in advancing the state-of-the-art in aerial photography,
has more recently been inadvertently inhibiting its progress. To under-
stand this requires first an examination of the image forming character-
istics of a lens-film system which for the purpose of this discussion
may be done in a very elementary way.
LENSES
Illustratively indicated'in' Figure 7 is the imaging of a distance
point source of light at a camera focal plane. Consider now the en-
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circled region of the focal plane and moreover consider this region as
tremendously enlarged and graphically plotted as light intensity versus
distance across the focal plane. Such a graphic plot is shown in Fig-
ure 8. Note that the point source is not imaged as a point, but that the
light is spread out due to the imaging characteristics of the lens
film system.
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