Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures taken with SOOKY-M
From: Shawn London <srlondon@ibm.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 19:20:56 -0500

Chris Bitmead wrote:

>LENSES DON'T MAGNIFY. All they do is crop a particular angle of
>view out of the surroundings, and place it on a certain size
>film.

That news will come as a big surprise to everybody who uses cameras, 
binoculars, microscopes and reading glasses.

To put it kindly, you might consider buying a physics text and reading up 
about optics.