From light to a photograph
The camera
Turn the focus ring and the glass inside moves. Close the aperture and less light gets in. Every ray on screen is traced through the lens design.
Drag the ring or the dials · drag elsewhere to orbit · scroll to zoom
A personal educational project built from cited public sources. The lenses follow public patent examples, and a lens's card says when a source ties it to a product. Personal project · lenses from public patents
Settings
Set the shot
On these full-frame bodies, smaller formats crop the sensor. Pixel pitch and noise stay the same; readout timing uses the full-frame value.
The physics engine's figures for these settings. The chip beside each number says what backs it.
Real photo
Your photographs, explained
Explore the recorded settings with a representative camera model. Your original photograph stays unchanged.