[Laser] (OT) Uses for a 35-60 zoom lens

[Paolo Cravero]

Sirs,
I couldn't find any idea through a search engine, so I ask to the 
largest community of "optical builders" I know of. Please reply directly 
since my request is off-topic. Thank you for you patience.


After few days in the hands of my daughter, a point and shoot 35mm 
camera plastic has started to break apart... time to put it aside and 
start opening it up.

The viewfinder lens is good for a macro addition to my cameraphone 
(instead of a much smaller DVD laser head lens!). Then there are 
electronics, motors, flashes, and ... the motorized 35-60 mm (f/4,3 to 
f/6,3) zoom.

Is there any useful re-use of that piece of optics? Not necessarily in 
front of my never-finished light receiver... I know the focus area is 
pretty wide, 35mm in fact :-), way larger than any photosensor, so an 
opto-RX might not find that zoom too useful.

Any idea is welcome, also for reusing other parts I will find inside the 
camera.


I wish you all a Bright 2011,
Paolo IK1ZYW