Re: ATM Help with relay lens design for large Maksutov

[Andy Saulietis <iss@pvtnetworks.net>]

Jim,

>Just how much quality are we talking about here?  Any photographic lense I
>have ever seen does poorly when wide open.  Which is apparently what is
>needed to cover the object image.

The Angenieux's in my lab were pretty good, even at
f1.0 and 0.95 50mm full aperture. Remember, we're
discussing relaying for a CCD camera, where the pixels
are >> larger than the diffraction image. 

Most of the Nikon lenses were also good, but the
zoom lenses were too slow.




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