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Making Kodak lenses

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Posted by Tony Kuyper on October 23, 2014 at 12:32 AM
Vintage film of how lenses for cameras used to be made.

Favorite line: The calculator can do in several weeks what used to take a year.

Good music to go with it all.
Posted by Paul Breitkreuz on October 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Tony, thanks for sharing. It's a nostalgic trip into photographic history and quite honestly the strong manufacturing backbone the USA had at the time. Simply amazing the amount of steps and required personnel to perform the very necessary points in production of all lenses. The "calculator" you mentioned was a real dynamo & dinosaur in itself. Ektar lenses are still being used by folks to date in the analog world of photography.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 23, 2014 at 12:02 PM
:toast:
Posted by Jim DeWitt on October 23, 2014 at 12:58 PM
Very cool find, Tony. Thanks.