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Originally Posted by toryglen-boy
thanks for that, interesting read! i wonder what could be achieved with a CCD at focus on it.
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I think the big challenge is that the original film carrier presses the film into a curve to match the curved focal "plane", so it would be very tricky to get a large CCD to be in focus over the full area. I have no idea how "soft" the resulting image would be without a suitable "field flattener". There's a bit of talk here
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=38945 from a few years back where KenGee gives some calculations for the necessary flattener.
It might work with a smaller sized CCD, but that kind of defeats the point of a very wide-angle Schmidt Camera.