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Re: [OM] OT: play around with lenses

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: play around with lenses
From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:50:20 -0800


>Hi list members,
>
>to get a feeling of different capacities of different lenses without
>wasting film, there is the possibility to play around with so called
>workshop microscopes. There are very cheap and quite good Russian workshop
>microscopes at the flea markets. With such an instrument, you can watch the
>picture plane as if it were an real object. It is very simple to watch the
>center of the picture plane, but more difficult to see the corners because
>of the there uneven illumination. With their magnification of 25 times and
>50 times, you can sometimes see abberations, which you normally know only
>as a technical term, for example the chromatic abberation (it is better to
>use a good achromat than a bad apochromat).
>
>Matthias


Matthias;

I forgot to ask you in my msg about the lion shots:  What exactly is the
Olympus equipment you used for the chip shots?  Microscope or what?  Thanks

george

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