Tuesday, 30 August 2016

color - What determines whether chromatic aberration will be purple/green or red/cyan?


In my experience, both with my own photography and looking online, chromatic aberration is usually purple on one end and green on the other. However, I have also seen the same effect with red and cyan, such as in this question.


It occurs to me that these are both sets of complementary colors; indeed, both purple/green and red/cyan are used for anaglyph 3D for that very reason. Does that mean that you could also get a yellow/blue CA? What about the lens determines the colors that are visibly fringed?




No comments:

Post a Comment

Why is the front element of a telephoto lens larger than a wide angle lens?

A wide angle lens has a wide angle of view, therefore it would make sense that the front of the lens would also be wide. A telephoto lens ha...