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|    Louis Boyd to dikmus@gmail.com    |
|    Re: lens construction beginners question    |
|    26 Aug 13 21:35:53    |
      From: boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu              dikmus@gmail.com wrote:       > Hi,       >       > I have a camera (from a iPad), that has to look through a hole in the wall       (the hole has a 15 mm diameter. and the wall is 100 mm thick). Behind the wall       is a room, and I would like the Ipad to see the room as if it did not look       through the hole, but        was actually in the room.       >       > I have no knowledge op optics but I would like to know if this can be done,       and if so what kind of lenses to use to achieve this effect.       >       > Since the construction I am looking for has to be build in a low priced       product, I will need to use low priced lenses (probably plastic).       >       > Any help would be very much appreciated.       >       > Thanks Richard              Quicker and easier than designing a lens assembly to do the job and (and       very likely to give better image quality) is to use a USB       endoscope/bore scope video camera and place the whole camera though       the hole. Ebay shows some 10mm diameter cameras with a few meters of       USB cable for around $80. Not sure if it will work with an Ipad.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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