{"id":22058,"date":"2021-11-22T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22058"},"modified":"2021-11-20T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:43:24","slug":"kodak-not-just-photo-supplies-and-cheap-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/kodak-not-just-photo-supplies-and-cheap-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak &#8211; not just photo supplies and cheap cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22060\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kodak-Anastigmat-16mm-movie-lens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22060\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kodak-Anastigmat-16mm-movie-lens-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodak 67mm f\/2.7 Anastigmat 16mm movie camera telephoto lens<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The movie lenses were promoted to customers in advertisements like the one in <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kodak-Popular-Photography-June.-1951.jpg\">this advertisement back in 1951<\/a>. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n<p>A thank you goes to photographic historian and retired industrial cinematographer, George Dunbar, \u00a0for sharing this bit of photographic history with us. The ad appears in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=z10zAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">June, 1951 issue of Popular Photography<\/a> magazine on page 86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/kodak-not-just-photo-supplies-and-cheap-cameras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[1169,296,3942,21],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-anastigmat","tag-cine","tag-cine-ektar","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22066,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions\/22066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}