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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I raised it sometime ago but now playing around with f2.2 I started thinking about this again..I wish someone would seize the curved sensor technology and make a camera or a whole imaging unit at f2.2. with a suitable curved sensor.
It would be an absolute game changer and whoever does first it will send all the competitors broke I bet.
It would be amazing.
I wonder how one could make it happen...I doubt if one could get ones hands on a curved sensor..plus I think the ones they probably have are being developed for camera lens, refractir style, not a mirror set up..each wouldcrequire opposite curves I think???
I wonder if you could lay a curved piece of glass on the sensor to achieve the effect?
Alex
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The
ultimate dream when I was a fledgling astrophotographer in the early 80's....
Get a field flattener and an
FLI Kepler 6060 at the prime focus of THAT!
...you'll have to find one first though
Believe it or not, with somewhat unrealistic, late teen, enthusiasm, my mate and I, in the mid 80's were determined to make our own 10" F2.2 (true) Schmidt camera...we got the optics, a 12" spherical mirror and 10" BK7 optical flat, polished on one side, with front and back faces parallel to 1/1000"...aaaaand still have them, never completed it
Mike