I think you had better get in touch with the POV-Team, not this 
newsgroup. I only translated the html version of the manual into a 
printer-friendly pdf, and I did that by dragging-and-dropping the text a 

chapter via the next.
Anyhow, I went through version 3.1 and found it reports exactly the same 


he 
text is the same. See Pov Manual version 3.1, chapter 4.4.6.

Enrico Sanna

Severi Salminen wrote:
> Looking at the camera.cpp file I see that the default values for focal 

> blur is not what is said in the Documentation.
> 
> 
> camera.cpp:
> 
> Make_Vector(New->Focal_Point, 0.0,  0.0, 1.0);
> New->Variance       = 1.0 / 10000.0;
> 
> 
> Povray Documentation (6.4.3  Focal Blur):
> 
> "The default value is focal_point <0,0,0>"
> "variance ... (the default is 1/128)."
> 
> 
> I hope I didn't misunderstand anything but it looks like the actual 
> Focal_point is the camera's Location plus <0,0,1> (one unit to 
> z-direction) if the Focal_point is _not_ defined. If it _is_ defined, 
> then the vector represents the actual pointm not offset. Please double 

> check this. Variance seems to be really 1/10000 instead of 1/128.
> 
> Severi Salminen

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