Etymology, brand names, and the zoom

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Video: the Hidden History of the Zoom Lens

Inspired by the Society for the History of Technology’s Three Minute Dissertation Video Contest, I have made this short film...

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In which I grumble about being an extra in Great Expectations (BBC, 1999), and reflect upon the uses of television history

(This one has nothing to do with zoom lenses…) This is a picture of me – far left – and...

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WMAR-TV’s Zoomar Lens: Serial No. 1

What a treat to receive – out of the blue – an email from Rob Brockmeyer, production manager at WMAR-TV...

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Early history of the zoom lens: filling in the gaps

At his ShadowPlay blog, David Cairns reports that: In a service to cinephiles/nerds everywhere, guest-Shadowplayer Mark Medin has created a pre-history...

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“The most useless gadget in a lazy cinematographer’s toolbox”?

Scott Marks, at the San Diego Reader, doesn’t mince his words when it comes to the zoom lens. The zoom...

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Billy Wilder on the zoom lens

I.A.L. Diamond: I think most young directors today, if you offered them the choice between a  good script and a...

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Banal considerations

I enjoyed this snippet from Peter Brunette’s (very useful) Roberto Rossellini (Univ. Calif. Press, 1996): “As Renzo Rossellini insisted quite...

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The Zoomar lens and early American television

One of the major thrusts of my doctoral project is to examine the history of the zoom lens in postwar...

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Is that a zoom on your camera, or are you just pleased to see me?

Sometime film cameraman and photographer Christopher Ness is pictured here modelling an Auricon 16mm film camera mounted with an Angenieux...

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