The image does not shiver because a virtual prism has been generated by the atromeric element. This follows the lens law to correct for objects at all ranges and create vibration-compensated images along the system AXIS.

However, when the focus falls short of the image plane and crosses the system axis, as with an object at infinity whilst the system is focused nearer, the vibration will re-emerge in the reversed direction.

Similarly, if the focus is beyond the image plane, the rays will not reach the axis before striking that image plane. Thus, for defocused objects nearer than the plane of focus some vibration will remain.

The behaviour is identical to what you see when you examine one of your fingers whilst bobbing your head up and down. When your head goes up, the defocused background goes up. However, if you place another finger even nearer than the one you are concentration on, it will go down when your head goes up.

If the front element of an atromeric system is moved forward from a position such as G to H, for close focusing, its image will be enlarged. That image will still be in the same position relative to the atromeric element, which will give the original compensation for vibration, which will now be insufficient.

Fortunately, REAR-element focusing is still allowed, because the vibration compensation has already taken place before the light reaches the rear. This gives the designer some choice.

It is important to bear in mind that the four laws are based on small angles, where the sine of an angle approaches that angle itself (in radians). It also requires that over the required deflection range there is no substantial barrel or pincushion distortion within the (curved) object and image fields. Special exceptions will arise when huge deviations, or non-standard arrangements of elements, are employed.

It is of course possible to create designs where two atromeric parts are each balanced at half their focal length, and variants of this kind. Such concepts are based upon the principle that for small angles the sine of the total angle is equal to the sum of the sines, to a reasonable approximation. Such complexities are best avoided if possible.

The kind of mounting used depends on the application, but for two degrees of motional freedom, Cardano`s mechanism - the gimbals - will usually be employed. It can be seen that the common axis of swivel is in the optic axis. The symbolic diagram does not show this, but it is common sense. For clarity, a dot may be added beneath the hinge.

Generally, some form of centration clamp will be required - if only for transit. For still photography, it might be an instant-return clamp, released only during exposure. For motion pictures, it may require a button to snap the lens to its central position.

In a motion-picture system, this might sound an alarm in an earpiece, to prompt the cameraman to centre the atromeric element by pressing a button.

One ingenious form of dashpot invented by the author consists of thin sheets of ferromagnetic material and of copper or diamagnetic material, which are interleaved with each other without touching. The ferromagnetic material is magnetised, and damping takes place due to electrical eddy currents induced in the copper. Either the magnets or the copper sheets form the counterweight. The other set of vanes is secured to the housing.

When a DC deflection current is applied to the coils in addition to the vibration-compensation waveform, it becomes possible to provide remote control of framing such as in a hand-held television camera. DC shift will, however, limit the available vibration excursion.

What we have seen so far is that when we want to take a photograph from a vibrating or moving camera, it will not give an ideal result except with an infinitesimally short exposure.

During the period of exposure, the lens will smear the image along its focal plane. This effect is due to the angular vibration, which magnifies the lens movement by the law of the optical lever.

The first effect of atromeroptics is to convert the angular vibration into linear vibration, shown here exaggerated. Vibration-proofing is perfect only at infinity.

Pulling focus brings the euatromeric axis forwards onto the subject. "Eu" is Greek, and sometimes Latin, for "good" or "optimum".

This axis is at right-angles to the direction of vibration. The images are exaggerated, to display the principle clearly.

It can be seen, therefore, that there is no more smearing, but the problem has been reduced to one of perspective error as the lens views the scene from its changing position. Such perspective error is often trivial - particularly on distant objects.

There is a euatromeric point, where the vertical and horizontal axes of vibration cross. This will be along the optical axis as it was at the moment the atromeric part was unclamped, and at the focusing distance, in the systems described.

Hairsprings may make this point drift, by imparting the mean thrust of the lens system to the atromeric part. Similarly, as we shall see, the inertia of the atromeric part may also cause such drift.

Dynamic atromerisation allows the atromeric part to continue to move in the direction that the camera is taking. The background becomes blurred, but if the lens tracks with the object, the object is sharp.

Static atromerisation forces the atromeric part to come to rest, so that despite the camera movement the background is sharp. Anything moving relative to that background will have motion blur.

Viewed from the rear, the atromeric mounting consists of a hollow tube mounted on gimbals, and with a circular weight around it to counterbalance the mass of the element.

The question arises as to whether a gyroscope can be constructed by fitting bearings to this weight, and arranging for it to spin.

Alternatively, with bearings on the gimbals, the entire tube can spin. Bell and Howell of Chicago, U.S.A., patented the idea of spinning the lens in the Seventies. The disadvantage is that centration error spoils the sharpness of the image.

Whatever the choice, a set of coils can induce a "magnetic footprint" into the ring. Let us say that coil 1 goes N, and the "footprint" is S. Switching on coil 2 causes N to be between 1 and 2. The ring is turned by the moment acting on the "footprint". Then 1 is turned off. Then 3 is turned on - and so on. This is a linear motor.

A danger is that if both the rotating ring and the coil assembly are of soft iron, there may be some magnetic attraction between them that upsets the performance. Fortunately, there is a good choice of ferrites that can be used, for example as the coil-assembly core.

This design is introduced for its simplicity. We can already see what kinds of features might be available on CPU-based cameras:

Program 1 The user half-presses the shutter button, and the CPU delivers voltage to the coils in the order 1, 1 with 2, 2, 2 with 3, 3 and 3 with 1. This sequence speeds up, to allow the rotor to accelerate. Upon full pressure on the button, voltage is cut. The coil assembly may or may not swing free of the atromeric part to allow for movement. The centration clamp is released and the exposure takes place. During this time, the flywheel is free-spinning with no drive. The outcome is STATIC atromerisation.

Program 2 There is no drive to the linear motor coils. Upon pressure on the shutter-release, the centration clamp snaps open and the atromeric part can swing freely, following its previous average trajectory. The exposure now takes place. The outcome is DYNAMIC atromerisation.

Program 3 There is no drive to the linear motor coils. When the shutter button is pressed, the centration clamp remains locked throughout the exposure. The outcome is NO atromerisation, and the lens behaviour is conventional.

Such methods would allow a choice of features, but the free-spinning gyro would not be able to stabilise exposures of more than a second or two. For more serious work, it becomes necessary to invent a hollow electrically-maintained gyroscope. Here is one such example:

An annular pre-aged magnet has, say, its north in the middle (shown red). It is covered in resin (shown yellow) that has a few thousand volts set into it, forming an electret. Two more rings (north outside) form with this ring a magnetic bearing.

The outer jacket of the assembly - attached to the inner rings - has at least three electrically-conductive films coated upon it. When several hundred volts DC are applied to such a film, the electret will rotate on its magnetic bearing. Sequencing the application of voltages to the films creates a linear-motor action as before.

With the trend towards increasing miniaturisation, there is a need to create designs which by virtue of their simplicity can be made small.

The electrostatically-driven gyroscope meets that criterion, in that there are no wound components. The disadvantage is that high voltages - albeit at low current - are present in the system.

One aspect to be borne in mind is that the drive is capacitive. Whereas a system with coils will accept less current as the frequency rises, a system with capacitive drive will accept more. The starting torque will be low, but the running torque high.

Another aspect is that magnets without keepers run down, as do electrets. A target life-expectancy of ten years might reasonably be set - but in the absense of standardisation of parts, repair of old equipment might prove problematical when a magnet-electret gyro is used.

A further requirement is to limit the burden placed upon the atromeric part by discouraging the user from creating camera-shake. Those skilled in the art of electronic design will know how to detect vibration and so RE-INTRODUCE it into the liquid-crystal display by adding it to the X and Y co-ordinates of that display.

When a liquid-crystal display is not available, as with a single-lens reflex camera, ANTI-ATROMERIC techniques will be needed to make the image, complete with its viewing screen, vibrate. This forces the user to struggle to hold the equipment steady.

Here we see a sketch of a typical application. The objective lens has an atromeric part with two elements, in order that colour fringes will not appear. Beyond the pentaprism, the ocular lens is balanced in the reverse direction, and reintroduces vibration to the image.

The foregoing has put the emphasis on photographic lenses. However, when a natural law is discovered it finds application in a very wide range of fields. What have been shown above are examples of the use.

At the time of writing, the atromeroptic laws have still not been published. That is to say, the Dynalens and other systems gave way to the STEADICAM, which is a camera platform that holds the entire equipment steady.

Professionals might in future combine atromeroptics with the Steadicam. After all, avoidance of vibration is better than "repair".

The stabilisation of the optical path by dynamically balancing an existing part or parts is the essence of atromeroptics. A few attempts are being made to stabilise images by adding prisms in various ways, but there is no precedent for what was described above.

In the nineteen-seventies, the author applied for patents in London and Munich. He contacted the Association of Swiss Rosskopf Watch Manufacturers (Schweizerischen Rosskopf-Verband), suggesting that their industry would soon die out due to the arrival of electronic watches.

The suggestion was made that atromeric mountings might be put on the market for optical manufacturers. This would allow the slow growth of this new technology to compensate for the slow decline of the pin-pallet "Dollar Watch" - a seamless transition.

There was no response from the Association, and today a search of the Internet reveals practically no mention of them - not even in an historical context. It is as if they never existed.

Nevertheless, there are still components from the watchmaking "SORTIMENT" industry, such as INCABLOC shockproof bearings, that are ideally suited for the construction of atromeric mountings.

An approach was made to Ernst Leitz, in Wetzlar, Germany. The negotiations lasted for several months, before they declined the offer. It is not clear what the reasons for the rejection were - but they had been taken over by Wild of Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Perhaps they had limited decision-making power. To their credit, they maintained secrecy in the matter of vibration-compensated optics, as agreed.

In Britain, the author bought a house and filled it with his antique furniture, personal effects such as family photos, and at least a tonne of industrial components, ready to create industry. Amongst the components were thousands of optical parts.

Before he could start work, the British government - which had destroyed the whole of British industry through blunders - decided on a course of WAR.

The "DARK FORCES" that the Queen spoke of concluded that industry was not the way ahead. Instead, they would return to robbing the world in an attempt at restoring their fortunes.

The author`s house was totally wrecked, and he took refuge with those things he could rescue with a good landlord in Hampstead, London.

In 2002, the "DARK FORCES" themselves acquired the house in Hampstead by cheating that landlord. They threw the author onto the street in severe medical difficulties, having already secured the alibi that the DISEASE was the cause of death. Temperatures were at that time sub-zero.

The quetion might be raised as to why the author was targetted. It appears that this was not the case. Instead, the "DARK FORCES" had ordained that their servants must gain experience of bestial behaviour in preparation for the Iraq war. The author, with a major illness, was a suitable victim to practice on.

Barely alive, the author escaped to Europe in March 2003 - just as the Iraq war was commencing.

Throughout the rest of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, the author spent his time creating web-pages of his original inventions and of the laws of nature he has discovered. The first reason is that it would be a waste to have spent a lifetime gathering knowledge and then to die with it. The second reason is that there are those who are in a position to turn such knowledge into cash.

Prior to publishing these details, the author contacted the German Ministry of Industry and Commerce. As a German national, the author offered that ministry a monopoly. There was no reply, and so the details are now published worldwide as promised.

The author has at the time of writing become sixty years of age, has an untreated illness and was robbed of everything by the British government. Under such circumstances, he cannot create industry alone.