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 …
Despite the company’s distinguished reputation as a fabricator, Rollei commonly partnered with, and outsourced to, the best German glassmakers rather than producing their own lenses. For cameras, Rollei has been synonymous with Goerz, Zeiss and Schneider, but within Delta’s purview – projection and enlargement lenses reversed for use as capture optics – the most relevant partnerships …
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.
Famously the only good thing to come out of Sparkhill, Birmingham (a long way from Alabama), the Aldis brothers were to set their family name on a handful of British icons. In the grand scheme of things, Aldis can be considered as spawning from Dallmeyer in 1901. The company quickly established itself with a range …
The bent of young Waterworth was perhaps revealed by his acquisition of membership to the Royal Society of Tasmania at the age of 17 – at whose meetings and lectures were discussed such wide-ranging and improving topics as horticulture, practical and adapted science, history, philosophy and psychology. His 1990 obituary cited gardening as his primary private …
Another seminal maker lost to the purview of recent generations, J.H. Dallmeyer was destined for entanglement in the fate of its internecine rival, A. Ross. John Henry Dallmeyer was the son-in-law of Andrew Ross, and was employed initially in the company’s workshop, then as a scientific advisor. Following the death of Andrew Ross in 1858, …
From the late-1970s and until well into the 1990’s the BelOMO optical works of Belarus (known before 1971 as MMZ) churned out many substantial projector lenses of variable design and quality, now cheaply available on the used market – sometimes referred to as ‘those Russian KP’ lenses. Mindful of Belarus’ technical independence from the former …
Relegated to an obscurity unilluminated by the usual sources, the French manufacturer F. Faliez was active from approximately 1912 until at least the late 1940s, with factories and offices based in the village of Aufreville-Brasseuil in Mantes, fifty kilometres west of Paris in the Seine-et-Oise district – it’s distinctive ‘Ft PARIS’ branding a somewhat elastic …