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- From: tony@zoo.toronto.edu (Anthony L. Lang)
- Subject: Re: Bushnell scopes and ED lenses
- Message-ID: <By129M.2B9@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:34:32 GMT
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- > 2. Is the ED Prime glass significantly better than the
- > regular glass?
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- ED stands for extra-low dispersion. Regular glass has a
- different refractive index for the different wavelengths
- of light with the result that when the image reaches your
- eye, not all of the wavelengths have the same focal point.
- Hence the image is not quite sharp. This is known as
- chromatic aberration. ED glass doesn't disperse the wavelenghts
- differentially as much and therefore results in a much sharper
- image. This is the glass used in the new Bausch and Lomb
- ED scope and the new Bushnell ED scope as well as the
- fabulously expensive fast new camera lenses. They are expensive
- not so much because they are fast, but because they have
- ED glass. I don't know whether Kowa fluorite lenses acheive
- their sharpness in the same way. I imagine they do.
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- Anthony Lang
- Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Toronto
- tony@zoo.utoronto.ca
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