TV Lens Week…Post 2: The Pickle Barrel Lens

In the photo below, you see a sports event from the late 1940s or early ’50s being covered by a couple of RCA TK30s with zoom lenses. The long lens is a 27 element Zoomar Field Lens. The other camera is equipped with periscope type reflector lens, possibly from Rank, Taylor, Hobson. Due to it’s shape and size, it was commonly referred to as ‘the pickle barrel’ lens.

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