The primary lens is a very wide-angle lens...it has a very large depth of field...throws a wide image circle...on a pellicle element (which takes the normal place of film or a sensor) ...This second lens can zoom in on the projected wide-angle image, giving an apparently longer focal length ...
他使用了一個(gè)具有較大成像圓的大廣角鏡頭,將“具有較大景深”的影像投影在一張薄膜上,然后再用一個(gè)變焦鏡頭去捕捉薄膜上的影像,來實(shí)現(xiàn)變焦并控制光圈。
There is also a system of prisms in the system that allows the lens to be aimed without altering the camera's orientation.
就是為了在不變換機(jī)位的情況下讓鏡頭可以指向別處,同景深沒什么關(guān)系
A simplified explanation is that he developed a system that uses two lenses. The primary lens is a very wide-angle lens, and like all wide-angle lenses, it has a very large depth of field for any given aperture (and the aperture is kept fairly large in Frazier's design). That's what gives the deep-focus "magic"; a very wide-angle lens. There's nothing too very special or revolutionary about that.
This particular wide-angle lens, though, also throws a wide image circle. In other words, it makes a very big picture for its focal length. Again, nothing spectacular there; covering a large film frame with a short focal length lens is something optical designers have been doing for quite some time.
The image that the wide-angle lens throws isn't used directly by the camera, though. It's focused on a pellicle element (which takes the normal place of film or a sensor) and viewed through a separate lens behind the wide-angle lens. This second lens can zoom in on the projected wide-angle image, giving an apparently longer focal length and allowing the aperture to be varied as necessary for photography/filming exposure while maintaining essentially the "baked-in" depth of field of the primary wide-angle lens. By itself, that has also been done before, as explained in the "prior art" section of the patent.
There is also a system of prisms in the system that allows the lens to be aimed without altering the camera's orientation. That part of the system is not too very different from an adjustable periscope. Again, that's not novel in itself.
It's the entire system taken together — using a large image circle from a very wide angle lens at an optimal wide aperture for that lens, taking a picture of that lens's picture through a separate lens, and having a system for articulating and orienting the two-lens system — that was patentable and award-winning. (However, it seems he blew the patent protection, at least in some jurisdictions, by poor choice of promotional methods. See the Wikipedia article for more details and links.)
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