Diamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.
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DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Pretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.