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Re: [APML] Biggest lens I ever saw!

To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: Re: [APML] Biggest lens I ever saw!
From: Chris1011@aol.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:27:53 EDT
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In a message dated 6/5/2002 7:57:12 PM Central Daylight Time, montezinho@bigpond.com writes:

Trawling through Ebay I just came across a real whopper of a lens. It is a 36" (914mm) f4 Perkin Elmer. My guess is it was a mapping camera. The objective is 9" across. It would be fun to own and make an amazing astrograph but it also weighs 300lb so no commercial mount I know of would hold it. The item number and URL are below.

Forget it! They have terrible color. I had a similar one made by Kodak and it was useless as an astrocamera.

Roland Christen

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