Anyone Ever See A Lens Like This?
This is a first for me. I suspect this is not a zoom lens, but a telephoto lens with magnifying mirrors inside set up in a periscope type arrangement. Thanks to Jim Weinberg for the photo.
In Loving And Living Memory Of KTTV…Jim Diaz Restorations I just got the pictures in from our friend Jim Diaz in California. He has a passion for KTTV’s history and in the process of writing a book on the station’s history, but in the mean time has restored one of his TK 31s as a […]
What A Find! Steve Raymer at The Pavek Museum in the Minneapolis area has received some lens donations and this one is a real treasure. This is a very rare Walker Electra Zoom lens. Joe Walker worked with Frank Capra and made and designed special lenses to be used specifically on over 50 of Hollywood’s […]
The Business End Of An RCA Camera From 1946 till around 1966, most cameras around the world were four lens turrets. The most common array of lenses was the 8 1/2 inch, 135mm, 90mm and 50mm. The turret was first used on the RCA TK30s and TK10s. The last RCA with a turret was the […]
Below this 1953 SMPTE article written by Karl Freund is a copy of his biography by IMBD writer John Hopwood. In the article Freund tells how he shot I Love Lucy and describes how he overcame unique new problems. Karl Freund was born in Germany in 1890; by age 15 was working as a projectionist […]