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Originally Posted by Jarrod
ive been thinking about one of the methods used to grind mirrors: using two equal sized pieces of glass. when the glass used as the 'tool' ends up with a convex surface, would it be possible to turn the tool into a lens? obviously it would be of much poorer quality then a lens made of proper optical quality glass, but is it possible?
jarrod.
PS, sorry about all the strange questions, im still new to this subject.
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Yep, it's possible, but as you say it won't be much good for anything. The quality of the glass in not so much a problem as is the fact that with any simple lens you will get chromatic aberration and spherical aberration, no matter how good the quality of the glass.