The handbook of kinematography, the history, theory, and practice of motion photography and projection (1911)

Record Details:

Title:
The handbook of kinematography, the history, theory, and practice of motion photography and projection
Date:
1911
Publisher:
London, Kinematograph Soc
Volume:
The handbook of kinematography, the history, theory, and practice of motion photography and projection
Leaf #:
000170
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Gerstein - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
14
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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HANDBOOK OF KINE M ATOGRAPHY. 149 Lens/ it is, in fact, an instrument of a type so perfect as to be not merely fit for optical projection of the highest class, but also equally suitable for the actual taking of the pictures themselves, and everyone FIG. 116. THE BUSCH GLAUKAR PROJECTION LENS. knows that to take a kinematograph picture nothing but the most perfect of optical combinations will serve. In the Glaukar projection lens, then, we have an instrument which may fairly claim to be abso- lutely and literally perfect. Other makers may equal it. Candidly, we could name at least one English firm of repute which turns out lenses equally as good. But when a thing is perfect, as is this Busch Glaukar, it cannot be surpassed, and there is no getting over it. The block above hardly does justice to its importance and value. FIG. 117. COURTLANDER'S CINASTIGMAT PROJECTION LENS. THE CINASTIGMAT manufactured by H. Courtlander is a pro- jection lens specially designed with a view to helping the showman out of the rut of fuzzy indistinct pictures into the clear light of a