I., . k 111.1 I PAGE Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1963 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6,1963 LASER LIGHT SOURCE USED: Scientists Unveil Lensless Photography i Across Campus By STEVEN HALLER If current research is any cri- terion, the shutterbug of the next century may be able to take pic- tures with a lensless camera, but, he would need a portable laser source to do so. According to Juris Upatnieks of the Institute of Science and Tech- nology, however, studies of lens- less photography now being car- ried out here are being restricted to the new field's applications in the laboratory. Emmett N. Leith, also of IST, explained that the value of a lensless optical system is its use- fulness in facilitating such lab- oratory processes as electron mic- roscopy and X-ray photography. It is not yet possible to construct good lenses for these processes. He added that lensless equipment could also be used in combination with lenses to convert a relatively poor optical system into one of high quality. Laser Used Lensless photography requires a coherent monochromatic light source--either a mercury are lamp, fitted with a special filter, or a laser, Upatnieks pointed out. The laser light source uses a beam of helium-neon light in which all rays are of equal frequency, pro- ducing a concentrated beam with powerful penetration capabilities. In the first step of lensless photography, the laser light source is trained on a transparent object. This may be a photographic nega- tive, an ordinary photographic col- or slide or a microscope slide. At the same time, a portion of the laser beam is diverted around the object with mirrors. Both the laser light passing through the object and that which is diverted are caught on ordinary film by a lens- less camera-like instrument on the other side of the object. No focusing of light beams takes place on the film, since the instru- ment has no lenses; consequently the resulting picture is a mass of blurs, similar to that shown in3 the above picture (left). It is dur- ing the second step that this com- pletely unintelligible smudge is converted into a recognizable im- age. Prof. Michael Wallach of Duke "The Lower Depths" today at 8:30 University will speak on "Per- p.m. in Trueblood Aud. sonality Correlates of Risk Tak- ing" today at 4:15 p.m. in Aud B. Tag Day. The "Galens Boys," members of Being Earnest.. the Galens Honorary Medical So- The University Players will pre- ciety, are holding their annual sent Oscar Wilde's "The Import- Christmas tag-days today and to- ance of Being Earnest" today at R in Lvdi Mendelssohn morrow. The money collected is IS .~i.AU. AL ..~J 44L. *V .*fnt. "LEMMOr j~mmo Carat Lynlej Deartdone Edie Adams Imo ncoca DIAL 5-6290 * Shows f, 3, 5,7, 9P.M. HELD OVER Through Saturday ",4 IS HILARIOUS" --TIME MAGAZINE 10:1 f a