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Default Do old -style opticians cut lenses on premises [OT]

On 24 Sep 2006 18:50:02 GMT, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Ah, what you really want are diamond lenses, at 2.42... ;-)

There's also Synthetic Moissanite at 2.69, but I don't know
how large a piece can be manufacturered.


I suspect the colour aberration at the edges would be horrendous. It's
pretty bad with these glass jobbies. I don't think it would make any
difference to the barrel distortion though.

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