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VLMlast Friday at 8:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Its the usual Youtube thing where there's multiple videos. The one linked is the bibliography popular science utterly non-technical spin. There's a three part technical series, a fun two hours viewing, and the end of the third technical video goes has some performance shots. It performs really well for a tiny little thing, like per gram or per cubic centimeter the performance is excellent. Its a cool technology and when I saw it I immediately wondered if it would be possible to make a microscope the same way out of single solid cylinder of glass. I don't think so; but it would be cool. It would also make an interesting, although probably very expensive, binocular technology.


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buescherlast Friday at 11:19 PM

Catadioptric telescopes are in fact sometimes configured and sold as long (working) distance microscopes: http://www.company7.com/questar/microscope.html Not made out of a single piece of glass, though, which is one of the things that's so elegant about Rik ter Horst's design.