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I didn't know a good answer to this question so I did some searching around. I finally found a web page that has a lens tutorial and a Q&A blog that describes the problem and possible solutions. The problem is that there are simple equations for computing focal length as an approximation. If however you need to know the exact focal length then it is a very difficult problem. Here are the links. http://photo.net/photo/optics/lensTutorial.html#part1 http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003AEP
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