Re: [APML] RC Field Flattener

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

Gil,

Peter Ceravolo ceravolo@cyanogen.com does very high quality work and costs a pretty penny.

Matt

At 06:37 PM 11/5/2001 -0800, Gil Shillcutt wrote:

>I've recently acquired a RC scope (optics by Paul Jones), and thought I might try my hand at medium format.  The scope shows some curvature of field at the corners of a 35mm frame, so will definitely need a field flattener to do decent medium format.  I've not been able to evaluate the optics for astigmatism, though that may need to be corrected as well.  
>
>Does anyone know of an optical designer/fabricator that I might be able to work with to design an appropriate corrector?
>
>I'll be getting the scope to first light over the next couple of weeks -- it was formerly George Greany's.  I've been wasting the last month of clear skies (a true rarity in Atlanta) building an observatory for the scope.  BTW, I fully expect it to start raining next week.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- Gil

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