Re: Looking for lenses

"mukyuk" <ah@xxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone know where I can get a cheap supply of small lenses? My needs
are about 6mm to 8mm, bout f1.5. I need thousands of them real cheap, glass
or plastic. Please help!!!

Optics cheap and other forms of cheap are not the same and the days of
low cost lenses from Edmund when they were a surplus house, I am
afraid, will be hard to find today.

If you find really cheap lens sources that you like, let me know as I
plan to get back into Amateur Astronomy when I move to UTAH in a few
years.

I built my visual comparison photometer for my senior project in 1968
using Edmund's cheap lenses and beam splitter. They worked fine and
the entire instrument cost $550.00 including a new lead screw for the
lathe which was a lot considering one quarter at UCLA cost $80.50 and
text books were rarely over $20 each.

Parking was $0.25/day. God I miss the good old cheap days. Then again,
no one is trying to draft me to go to Vietnam today even if my bones
did not creak :-)


James E. Klein
Engineering Calculations
KDP2 Optical Design Program and Design Work
www.ecalculations.com
1-818-823-4121
1-818-507-5706 (Fax)
1377 E. Windsor Rd., #317
Glendale, CA 91205
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