Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

itar Lenses Get the Picture! The 40mm. telephoto magnifies subjects about 1 Vi times "standard" coverage. A real close-up! Yet with the 152mm. lens, you can film this scene from the same distance as the others in the series. WITH a complement of accessory lenses, your camera acquires truly remarkable versatility. Every scene can be framed just as you want it . . . shots you never before thought possible come into easy range. And, when you choose Kodak Cine Ektar Lenses, you obtain for your own reels the unsurpassed movie results provided by the finest lenses ever produced for 16mm. and 8mm. cameras. A full complement of Kodak Cine Ektar Lenses for 16mm. cameras consists of seven lenses — a wide-angle, two lenses of standard focal length, and four telephotos ranging in relative magnification from \Vi to 6 times — the whole series comprehensively graduated in focal length at a common ratio of 1:6. Four of the lenses are in suitable focal lengths for use with 8mm. cameras . . . provide telephoto magnifications from 2 to 5 times. Few movie makers, perhaps, will require the range provided by all the lenses. But equally few serious movie workers can afford to be without some of them. The Kodak Cine Ektar 63mm. //2.0 Lens, to take just one example, is a lens that might well have a place in your movie kit. Like all Ektar systems, this lens is remarkably fast for its focal length — fast enough not only for most outdoor conditions . . . but even for shots of indoor events. Used on a 16mm. camera, it captures images 2XA times as large as would the standard lens from the same position . . . on an 8mm. camera, 5 times as large. The results — "sideline" sports shots filmed across tiers of seats . . . unflustered movie portraits of camera-conscious subjects . . . detailed views of unapproachable wildlife — real close-ups filmed from well back, whenever time, terrain, or the nature of your subject prevents you from moving in. And this fine lens is as much at home at extremely short range — at minimum focus, it covers fields a scant inch or two wide . . . for needle-sharp studies of tiny movie subjects. The table at left, below, will help you select the lenses best suited to your needs. Look it over . . . then talk it over with your Kodak dealer. He'll be glad to supply you with lenses that will help you get the picture . . . every time! e scene . . . from the same camera-to-subject distance. EKTAR: TOP QUALITY THE most important characteristics of a lens are those you can never see. Even a photograph like this — an actual crosssection of the Kodak Cine Ektar 2 5mm. //1.4 Lens — can only suggest the skilled design, the precise manufacture . . . the all-round optical excellence . . . that are essentials of this one lens, and of all truly fine optical systems. For characteristics like these, only the integrity of the manufacturer can give you full assurance. And Ektar Lenses — designed and produced by Kodak — are those which have proved so excellent in every characteristic that they have earned Kodak's highest optical designation. Kodak Cine Ektar Lenses provide unique flatness of field . . . give crisp definition and sparkling sharpness from edge to edge. Rare-element glass helps assure topquality results, even under adverse lighting. Because Ektar Lenses are fully color correct — with all glass-air surfaces Lumenized — your shots take on surprising brilliance and realism, whether color or black-and-white. KODAK EKTAR CONVERTER This handy accessory "alters" the effective focal length of the 25mm. //1. 4 Ektar Lens to 15mm. — increases field coverage by about 60% — without loss in speed or image quality. For 16mm. cameras, the combination provides a standard lens and a wide angle — both with f 11.4 speed . . . both with Ektar quality! Kodak Ektar //1.4 Converter, 25mm. to 15mm. — $71.50. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester 4, N. Y.