1) Well, you know, the military stuff and the stuff what you can buy is two completely different things... I would not be surprised if some other optical companies produce the equipment with comparable characteristics on special order... 2) Ok, I'll try to do my best in posting interesting stuff :)
Hi Alexander, You are right, I am Russian, but I don't know much about LOMO... Well, they produce some spectroscopic devices and used to produce cameras (LOMO compact is quite famous for "lomography")... Anyway, thanks for welcome me here:)
Hi! This is Mikhail Polyanskiy, laser scientist and (occasionally) optical designer. Interested in many things. Right now - in optical properties of different materials (developing a refractive index database web-site RefractiveIndex.INFO). And I will really appreciate any useful information or other feedback... Thanks!