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Definition of Anastigmat
1. Noun. Compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images.
Definition of Anastigmat
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastigmat
Literary usage of Anastigmat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"... and symmetrical —The wide-angle rectilinear—The advantages of the anastigmat—The
Petzval portrait ..."
2. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"... distant object to us, instead of us going to it, and with better results, as
in Fig. 1. Taken with a Zeiss anastigmat, Series III-A. Morrill Geological ..."
3. Contributions to Photographic Optics by Otto Lummer (1900)
"Double anastigmat of CP Goerz.—The first objective of this kind was brought into
the market in the year 1893 by CP Goerz, ..."
4. The American Amateur Photographer (1906)
"The thickness of glass is usually greater in the anastigmat than in the rapid
rectilinear, and this absorbs a certain amount of light. ..."
5. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1911)
"Suffice it to say, that, after having seen the various processes employed in the
manufacture of anastigmat lenses and the critical tests to which they are ..."