The Evolution of the Cinema Lens—Part 2: The Cinema Revival: 1962–1974
This historical paper reviews the evolution of cinema lens designs over 60 years, including the recession of the cinema business from 1955 to 1963.1 As a product, cinema lenses are required for all cinema or studio film projection, but were always a sideline of larger optical firms and accorded secondary priority. Such lenses were judged by the on-axis resolution in the optics lab, yet cinema screen image resolution was always found to be only a fraction of the test result of the optics lab.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2007-02
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J16098
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