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Re: [OM] - Another lens that never made it (and this time it was a *REAL

Subject: Re: [OM] - Another lens that never made it (and this time it was a *REAL* pity!)
From: julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:56:35 +0000 (GMT)
Wasn't an April edition, was it?

Julian

>  from:    "Fabio J. Flowerside" <flowerside@xxxxxxxx>
>  date:    Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:24:32
>  to:      olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  subject: Re: [OM] - Another lens that never made it (and this time it was a 
> *REAL* pity!)
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> after the "ultra thin" 50mm f/2 (which eventually evolved in the 40mm f/2),
> that I have mentioned in my previous message, surfing the web I came into
> this other never-ever produced Zuiko lens:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/maitani_fan/camera_technologies.html
> 
> A 85mm f/1.4 GRIN lens, which was prototyped in 1989.
> 
> GRIN stands for "GRadient INdex" that is, a special glass whose refraction
> index is not constant but varies from center to the edge.
> 
> In an old photo magazine (dating back to 1984) it was claimed that by
> adopting gradient index glasses is possible to produce a 50mm lens with
> exceptional performance adopting just two (two!) lenses. The same
> improvements in compactness and performance, of course, should be applied to
> any other focal lenght...
> 
> It's a pity that wonderful Zuiko never made it...
> (now I'd like to know in which drawer that prototype is currently collecting
> dust... *DROOL*)
> 
> :'(
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Fabio
> 
> 
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