Press material of the time depicted the early history of cine projection as the quest for speed: vivid brilliance on screen meant healthy box office – making the business of brute-force light transmission a priority. Bigger audiences meant bigger cinemas, bigger screens, and therefore even greater demand on projection lenses. The race to improve the …
An overview and history of the extended ISCO Kiptar lens family, as well as images taken with some of these lenses, adapted onto digital cameras.
An overview of Optical, a small manufacturer of projection lenses from Spain, as well as images taken with some of their lenses, adapted onto digital cameras.
An historical overview of Projection Optics, a small US-based manufacturer of projection lenses as well as images taken with some of their lenses, adapted onto digital cameras.
Tomioka has acquired a peculiar mystique among collectors, artificially inflating the value of some otherwise unremarkable lenses. The making of often-spurious connections with Carl Zeiss has at times felt like a conspiracy to overheat the market. The Tomioka brand has become a talisman, indiscriminately conferring desirability on a wide range of optics. However, some of …
This article is my attempt at giving an overview of a couple of notable enlarging and industrial type lenses made by Tomioka. If you’re interested in the history of this interesting, but still not well documented manufacturer from Japan, you can find some of that under ‘The Tomioka Story‘ . Contents Here’s a quick look …
History of C. Friedrich, a small lens manufacturer from Munich in Germany as well as an overview of lenses and various sample images taken with them.