19th and mid 20th Century Photoshop, Flat Cut High Anamalous Dispersion Glass Idea

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I want to buy nonlinear optical glass small cube 10x10x10 cms from schott and cut it with glass cutting machine as slices. Glass will go to nonlinear with only warm, low kelvin light

I am inspired from two things , first 19th century painters viewfinders which were black mirror or gilded, cobalt blue flat glass pieces when they were the photoshop or digital cameras of the day or say velvia film. It was big fashion and thousands of them are made and carried by the people at their pockets.

the second inspiration is my old Leica lenses which they were made with high anamalous dispersion glasses and with some dim light , warm light conditions , they start act as nonlinear filter and makes portraits degrades mix to each other with nonlinear effect. The more the shadow , darker the grade , more the turbulence in the degrades and the grains and they end up with relief effect.

Researchers finds that quality at Da Vinci and they describe the effect gives endless sensation , variations and never completing journey.

Well, I started to find color photography is slower with importing film from usa with paying 25 dollars to postage , waiting 1 month , watching the lab ruin the negatives and prints etc. I will never use digital camera and digital printer.

I want to use that nonlinear glass slices as my viewfinder, camera filter and painting aid.

How I will select the glass from the catalog ? I wrote to zeiss and will write to Schott.

Umut
 
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Good morning MDR,

I am talking about big flat glass piece. I have posted Camera Lucida construction manual to articles. I wrote to Schott and Zeiss. I think few days later , they responds. I finished a lucida out of stainless steel but not installed the glass and mirror.

Above is basic but if it works , I will share the details. Read again slowly.
 
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