Field Curvature

An optical aberration where focal position changes with field height in a spherical fashion, resulting in flat objects being imaged onto a curved surfaces, as the product of imaging through spherical lens elements. Results in increasing defocus when moving away from imaging axis. 

See also Aberration

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