Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/18

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Subject: [Leica] to be young again...
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed Feb 18 11:13:49 2009
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36052E943B@case-email.casefoods.com>

Thanks for this .

Webb was a NC native and a member of one of our lodges. I'll get an  
article out of this thing.

Ric

On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:42 AM, David Rodgers wrote:

>
>
> The James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed to photograph the
> far reaches of the universe. Hopefully they won't make the same  
> mistake
> they originally made with the Hubble. The primary mirror being a
> whopping 2 microns too flat, which caused spherical aberration that  
> they
> couldn't fix the Photoshop, so they had to send up a compensating  
> lens.
> (Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to have Leica code the lens?) That
> was in 1993. My how time flies.
>
> I know that was off topic, but sometimes I wonder if in the current
> economic climate the only real innovations we're going to see going
> forward will be from government sponsored projects. That's not so bad,
> but I wonder if the Hubble will become a shooting star before we see a
> full frame M.

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