In the latest issue of View Camera Magazine, Richard Phillips describes a way to do ULF using a DSL to digitize his large negatives. He puts the negative on a light box and photographs it with a full frame Canon DSLR using a 60 mm macro lens. It looked like something I might conceivably try some day---if I had a UHL camera, which I don't at present, but who knows what the future will bring.

What I wondered about was whether I could do anything similar with my NIkon D80. The 18-200 mm zoom lens I use with my D80 works pretty well for general photography, but it does produce significant distortion. In principle, it should be possible to correct that digitally, but it never works out to my complete satisfaction. I wondered if there are any lenses (macro or not) available for my D80 which are distortion free to a sufficient degree that I need not worry about it?