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Acknowledgements:
The authors have neither economical nor commercial interest in the devices and procedures described.
The authors wish to thank TOPCON Spain SA for its help providing the Spaide AF filter Set and adapting it
to the Topcon TRC-50DX camera. All the images presented in this chapter were obtained using this system.
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