Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica lens turned into a telescope - can it be done?
From: "Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy" <watteau@krakow.neurosoft.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:08:55 +0100
 
>Leitz optics are so superior, that you'd be able to see the rings of Saturn
>if you took a picture of it with a 35mm f/3.5 Elmar and then enlarged it
>sufficiently.  

I hope you are joking????

Saturn is some 20 arcseconds wide. You will need 500 lpm to even
see more than light point. To see rings I suppose you will need
some 5000 lpm :-)


                                St.
                     (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy)
              http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy
Replies: Reply from Jean Marc Becker <jean-marc.becker@wanadoo.fr> (Re: [Leica] Leica lens turned into a telescope - can it be done?)