(Chris1011) wrote in message ...
Would anyone care to comment on the specific design advantages of a
triplet over a doublet or vice versa

You can answer that yourself by joining the new ATMOS lens design group on
Yahoo.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/

Roland Christen

I joined - there's - err - rather little traffic at the moment.

I take it you feel there are no clear cut quick answers to my question
and it will take a certain amount of learning and design before I
understand the differences, and this is something one has to do
themselves?

As much as I do enjoy learning things through and through, and will
agree there's nothing like discovering for yourself - if you (or
anyone else) would care to summarize (in laymans terms) I'd appreciate
it.