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Question: What's a real world example of a diverging lens!?
I know that contacts are like converging lenses, but what about something that resembles a diverging lens or works like one!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
In the real world of photography, converging and diverging lenses are what are used as the lens "elements" when designing the "lenses" we use to take photos

Link:
http://dev!.physicslab!.org/Document!.aspx!?!.!.!.

http://dev!.physicslab!.org/Document!.aspx!?!.!.!.

These should help you get a good idea of what the two do and how they differ

And a link showing them working together:

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Zoom_lensWww@QuestionHome@Com