This is the first video in the Basic OSLO EDU Exercises series, a hands-on introduction to OSLO using the free OSLO EDU edition. If you're a student meeting lens design software for the first time, or an engineer evaluating OSLO's workflow, start here.
What this video covers:
- Choosing a catalog lens: pull a real, purchasable lens from OSLO's built-in vendor catalogs instead of designing from scratch.
- Effective focal length assessment: combine a plus/minus lens pair and compare OSLO's computed EFL against the thin-lens estimate, seeing where the approximation holds and where it breaks.
- A Keplerian telescope: build the classic two-positive-lens telescope and examine its magnification and image orientation.
- A Galilean telescope: swap in a negative eyepiece and compare the two configurations.
These exercises need nothing beyond OSLO EDU, which is free to download and use: no license fee, no time limit.
Continue the series: 02. OSLO Field and Pupil Coordinates
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Working through the whole series? The written OSLO tutorials, including the Landscape Lens introductory exercise, pair well with these videos. When coursework outgrows OSLO EDU's limits, OSLO Premium removes them: request a free trial.
