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Subject: [OM] Re NASA lens
From: "Stewart Dean" <sdean@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:55:51 -0400
> Scroll down...OM-4 in NASA spec! What's that lens though? 

Something that isn't  obvious is that all our beautiful lenses are just 
junk in space....'cause the careful design that went into them, all the 
corrections, etc. are based on a glass to air interface....which is NOT 
the same as a glass to vacuum interface.  An old friend of mine 
worked on the redesign of the Hasselblad lenses that were used in the 
space program: one-offs for glass to vacuum.  Think of the cost!
// "I build my cars to go, not to stop", Ettore Bugatti
// Stewart Dean Kingston, NY

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