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Blue Shift of Bandpass Filters

Here’s a wonderful example of Art based on dichroic filters.

Image "Irdien" by Cris Wood www.chriswoodglass.co.uk

Art based on “dichroic filters”:  “Irdien” by Chris Wood
www.chriswoodglass.co.uk          with kind permission of the artist

We notice that the colors change at different angles of the filters.

Even more visible here :

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Art based on Dichroic filters : Photo used with kind permission of the Artist: Chris Wood, www.chriswoodglass.co.uk

We notice especially that for filters of the outer circle, filters that  have a 90 degree different orientation have about the same color transmission. Especially look at the topmost, the rightmost (both orange colored) and the top-right-most filter (with a purple touch)

Below is a calculator that gives an idea about the resulting interval of wavelengths (called “band” ) when you use the filter at some angle off the designed incident angle.

The filters above seemed designed for an incident of 45 degrees to the surface. Thus +45 and -45 degrees result in the same color and in between we get a blue shift of the wavelength that pass.

The calculation is just for the primitive case of a rectangular transmission curve.

Bokeh

Bokeh is a word that describes blurry, quite large, often round blobs in the image, often as background of some focussed image part.

As an example see the Bokeh of these lights of a Christmas tree.

Image of a Christmas tree showing Bokeh

Bokeh

“Bokeh” actually is the image of typically point sized Objects in a distance far outside the DOF, most often point size objects at infinity while the lens is focussed on some near distance or point sized object in the foreground when the lens is focussed on infinity.

A diagram explains this best :

The lowest large dot on the right is an example for Bokeh.

The shape of the Bokeh is the shape of the physical Iris. This is why many customers prefer round iris shapes
Bokeh of a catadioptric lens (=mirror lens), (C) Wikipedia

Bokeh of a catadioptric lens (=mirror lens), (C) Wikipedia

The Bokeh has ring shape here, because the image was taken with by a mirror lens, so that the iris center wasn’t exposed to light.