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a hot time in the old town tonight

Toronto. When I first saw this March 1950 ad for a Kodak lens that used Lanthanum, I immediately thought about the radio-active Leitz lenses I remembered reading about. To create unique glass characteristics, many glasses were melted with pinches of stuff … Continue reading

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