Dali
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Thanks for the comments.
I think that using the paraboloid surface to correct spherical aberration only applies to mirrors, not lenses. For mirrors the correction for spherical is, of course, perfect. Off-axis perfomance is, however, not great, which is the reason that Schmidt optical designs are often used for wide angle telescopes.
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Isn't Schmidt design including a freeform lens?