Anyone Ever See A Lens Like This?
This is a first for me. I suspect this is not a zoom lens, but a telephoto lens with magnifying mirrors inside set up in a periscope type arrangement. Thanks to Jim Weinberg for the photo.
‘Wheel Of Fortune’…Pilot Number 2…1974 ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ premiered as a daytime series on NBC on January 6, 1975, and continued to air on the network until June 30, 1989, but not before some major reworking of the original pilot we see in today’s first post. In this second pilot, Ed Byrnes, the actor who […]
Here you’ll see everything from the TK60s and 41s to lenses, pedestals, heads, cranes, lights, control room and telecine gear and more…it’s the whole magilla. In case you have never visited David Gleason’s American Radio History site, you should! He has almost every broadcast publication ever printed and it’s all readable and searchable. A fantastic […]
Super Bowl…The Magic Of Half Time! Amazing Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNRm7OwXpGo Two videos here…below, rare shots of the stage being set up for Madonna in 2012, and above is the performance. Amazingly, they have only 6 minutes to set up and 6 to tear down these incredibly complex stages. I hear there are 600 on the stage […]
Classic CBS This is the late Dennis ‘Paddy’ McBride in command of a TK30. For many years, Dennis was one of the top cameramen for CBS. His specialty was sports and he won several Emmys for his work which included zoom lens techniques. Great photo. Source
I’ve seen some like it used on space shot coverage.
I don’t know about the lens, but it appears to be a DuMont camera. Oddly the connector is not the usual DuMont rectangular affair.
interesting
Looks like Spears trying to be serious.