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Old 30-08-2009, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by hatman View Post
Hey thanks heaps for the tips. Still confused as to why you can get focus in an eyepiece out the back of the scope and focus in the eyepiece in the diagonal but can only focus the camera in line, not through the diagonal.
Think where the focal plane of the camera is-the same place as in a film camera. The focal point of an eyepiece is in the barrel of the eyepiece. You can't get the focal plane of the camera close enough with a diagonal.
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