Kodak 67mm f/2.7 Anastigmat 16mm movie camera telephoto lens
Toronto. We often think of Kodak in the film days as a maker of films and other photographic supplies along with a multitude of inexpensive cameras, both still and movie, and other accessories, projectors, etc.
However, Kodak also made a few high end cameras and lenses such as the Ektars once even used on Hasselblads as well as good quality cine lenses for its 16mm movie cameras.
The movie lenses were promoted to customers in advertisements like the one in this advertisement back in 1951. The icon for this post is an earlier (c1943) uncoated black enamel Kodak 16mm cine lens called a Kodak Anastigmat. Its 63 mm focal length acted as a telephoto lens on a 16mm camera. As the ad shows, it was replaced by a satin chrome Cine Ektar mid last century.
A thank you goes to photographic historian and retired industrial cinematographer, George Dunbar, for sharing this bit of photographic history with us. The ad appears in the June, 1951 issue of Popular Photography magazine on page 86.
