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Most people prefer the unsplit design. A fresnel is a terrible quality lens. Edmunds claims 5% FL variance on their fresnels. Their fresnels are probably better than most. This translates to a muddy, poorly focusable image.

What about a microlens film for the field fresnel? If each microlens is the diameter of the pixels and designed to focus that pixel's light at a set FL it might make a very nice split design.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/yqfu/PDF...31104-JVSTB.pdf

http://rogers.mse.uiuc.edu/files%5C...APL_82_1152.pdf

Thoughts?:confused: :scratch: :scratch2:
zzonbi
They're already used in newer 3LCD commercial projectors. They increase brightness and reduce the grille effect. I understood their optical axes are parallel. But to replace a field Fresnel each microlens must be aimed to a common point, in a converging cone. And if that is manageable, why not point each microlens the opposite, in a diverging pattern. Then you'd have the ultimate projector, just an ordinary LCD monitor with a foil over it, no other lenses or light sources whatsoever.

In reality such cheap optical foil lenses, the Fresnels being an example, lack the necessary precision, at least for now. The manufacturing process needs elaboration.

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