Two different setups for imaging an undulator source in the x-ray range have been tested. In the first, two circular Bragg-Fesnel lenses (BFL) were combined to form a telescope. The second consisted of one circular BFL and an asymmetrically cut crystal which produced vertical magnification. The emittance of the electron beam ε can then be deduced from the measured size of the source σ and the knowledge of the beta function at the source: ε=σ2/β. Effects were observed due, on the one hand, to the small aperture of the BFL and, on the other hand, to the angular emission pattern from an undulator. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.