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Old 22-05-2014, 08:38 AM
PeterHA (Peter)
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Fluorite

It will be a fluoro crown glass Barry used, not a CaF2 crystal (real Calciumfluorit).
But nowerdays many lenses with fluoro crown glass like Ohara FLP-53 are called fluorite, this is marketing.
Fluoro crown glass in doublets cannot match Calciumfluorites in doublets due to the superior optical properties of Calciumfluorite.