[OM] Re: Boy, did I stir up a storm !

[Winsor Crosby]

Canon makes a long lens that has a diffraction grating to bend the  
light as one of the elements instead of a lens element. It allow a  
reduction in length of about a third, I think. You do have to admire  
Canon plunging into new technology and creating the environment  
everyone else works in.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0009/00090604canon_400do.asp



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Mar 15, 2006, at 8:40 AM, ScottGee1 wrote:

>
> "Diffraction grating"?  Wuzzat??
>
> Do you mean the Mamiya soft focus lenses that use disks to control  
> the effect?
>
> ScottGee1


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