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What is colour fringing?

People often talk about colour fringing but what is it? There are two main types of colour fringing. Lateral (or transverse) chromatic aberration and axial (or longitudinal) chromatic aberration.

Lateral chromatic aberration refers to a lens’s inability to focus different wavelengths or colours of light at the same point across the focal plane, or image sensor, perpendicular to the direction

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