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Re: [OM] olympus contacts

Subject: Re: [OM] olympus contacts
From: WKato@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:56:39 EDT
In a message dated 99-10-26 23:46:41 EDT, you write:

> I'd just get a couple 50mm/1.8's and
>  reverse engineer them.  It wouldn't be very difficult, but I've
>  only got about a month left for this project.  The hardest part
>  would be finding the index of refraction, but since this would be
>  a destructive process anyway...
>  
>  The other research project is digitally reverse engineering the
>  lens: can one determine the lens design by carefully analyzing
>  the resulting aberrations?  :-)  I think that is beyond the scope of
>  a semester's project.  It seems that it should be possible, at
>  least for bad lens designs (where aberrations are significant).
>  
I have a project for you.  I assume you have a lens tracing program so would 
it be possible to adapt my Olympus lens to a Pentax 645 useing some negative 
diopter lens to extend the register distance between the lens flange and the 
film plane?

Warren
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