On Fri, October 16, 2009 04:19, karl shah-jenner wrote: > this is doing my head in.. > > http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/labman3/telecen.htm > > > you have *got* to see the image on this page using a real telecentric > lens - the distant part of the object appears larger than the close part ! Okay, that picture is really scary! I hadn't realized you could vary the rendering THAT much in lens design! Is that a result of being "double telecentric", though? What's beneficial to digital sensors is only on the sensor side, not on both sides. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info