OptimumCS for Android

11 things about OptimumCS

1. Particularly designed for landscape, architectural, travel and any other photography where maximum sharpness over a large depth of field is required, OptimumCS calculates the camera settings that minimize the combined effects of defocus blur and diffraction in order to achieve the sharpest photographs the laws of physics will allow.

2. If we shoot at too wide an aperture, we lose image resolution due to defocus blur (the blurring of objects in front of and behind our focus distance); at too narrow an aperture, we lose out due to diffraction (the spreading out of light when it passes through small openings).

3. The difference between the results of standard practice and the results of OptimumCS’s optimal approach is not a trivial one — you can, in some circumstances, lose half or more of your potential image sharpness by doing things the old way.

4. The OptimumCS approach is quite different from practices based on the international depth of field standard.

5. OptimumCS is an innovative tool for professional and enthusiast photographers seeking maximum image sharpness.

6. * The international depth of field standard, the basis for all camera lens manufacturers to calculate their depth of field scales .

7. In standard practice, the goal is finding the largest aperture that will provide minimally acceptable sharpness on relatively small prints.

8. So we need to know, for the scene we’ve composed and the lens we’re using, what the optimum aperture is.

9. for hyperfocal settings), restrict themselves – most probably without knowing why – to the image quality potential of an average pre-World-War-II emulsion.

10. dates back from a time when image quality was severely limited by the films available.

11. * Those who use depth of field scales .