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Smaller apertures do increase the angle of the diffraction minimum however the effect of diffraction is not the only thing influencing the resolving power of the eye. A perfect lens will produce a point image from a point object, no real lens will do this. Being long sighted, my lens is certainly far from perfect. Long sight means that the lens cannot become fat enough to focus light from close objects; the light is...

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