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From: "Mark Blackwell" <markb1958@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale
camera
I thought of this possibility and just forgot to mention it. Adaptor lenses vary. Some, like these, are simple lenses with positive or negative diopter values which modify the focal length of the lens they are put on but degrade the correction of the lens. Some of the fancier ones are chromatically corrected, some, like the common "close up" lenses are not. Another, and more elaborate type is the type of lens where the entire front component is changed. This is found on some 35mm cameras with between the lens shutters like the Kodak Retina. This type of lens has very much better performance than the diopter lens but is not quite up to a dedicated lens.Richard I did look further and as the previous reply stated they do seem to screw on to the front of the 45mm lens that was there. Just seemed counter productive from an optical stand point to have a lens over a lens.I wonder if there were two versions of this camera, one with and one without interchangeable lenses.
--- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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