Steve Shapiro: > You are correct, in so much as that some digital cameras are made to > accomodate standard lenses. But the digital camera captures light as it > falls on the chip, rather than a film plane. The lense for this kind of > camera projects the light in parallel rather than in a difusing pattern. > > I believe the original question was 'what is the difference . . .' Steve this is not true, lenses used on cameras focus light, they neither diffuse it nor render it parallel. k