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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Vision Res. 2008 Sep;48(19):1929–1939. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.06.021

Table 1.

Cone contrast for L-,M-, and S-cones when the eye is focused at 420 nm, 555 nm, and 650 nm. These cone contrasts are for the normal M-cone function with a peak of the extinction function at 530 nm.

Focus at 420 nm
1c/d
3c/d
6c/d
10c/d
15c/d
30c/d
60c/d
L 0.96 0.67 0.11 −0.11 0.06 0.00 0.00
M 0.96 0.72 0.20 −0.09 0.03 0.01 0.00
S 0.99 0.93 0.76 0.45 0.38 0.19 0.17
Focus at 555 nm
1c/d
3c/d
6c/d
10c/d
15c/d
30c/d
60c/d
L 1.00 0.99 0.94 0.86 0.75 0.44 0.21
M 1.00 0.99 0.94 0.88 0.78 0.50 0.27
S 0.98 0.82 0.48 0.08 −0.03 −0.01 0.02
Focus at 650 nm
1c/d
3c/d
6c/d
10c/d
15c/d
30c/d
60c/d
L 1.00 0.97 0.82 0.61 0.40 0.18 0.06
M 0.99 0.94 0.76 0.47 0.21 0.05 0.02
S 0.95 0.63 0.15 −0.06 0.01 0.00 0.00