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Underwater Photography. An underwater camera has a lens with focal length in air of 35.0 mm and a maximum aperture of f/2.80. The film it uses has an emulsion that is sensitive to light of frequency 6.00 × 1014 Hz. If the photographer takes a picture of an object 2.75 m in front of the camera with the lens wide open what is the width of the smallest resolvable detail on the subject if the object is (a) a fish underwater with the camera in the water and (b) a person on the beach with the camera out of the water?
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