Re: Joel's Christmas list

[erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)]

>It would be a lot cheaper to buy a 8 inch telescope mirror grinding
>kit and telescope making book and build a pair of 8 inch Newtonian
>binoculars.  Just mount the pair of Pentax 67s to the focusers instead
>of eyepieces.  Willmann-Bell's kit comes with two pyrex blanks, and if
>you use a plaster/tile tool instead of one of the pyrex blanks you'll
>wind up with two mirrors.  It would probably even be cheaper to pay
>someone to build you a pair of 8 inch Newtonian binoculars than to buy
>a pair of these lenses.

  :)

  Yeah but you can't stop down to f32 to
get more DOF with a telescope. :)

Greg