{"id":24736,"date":"2014-09-13T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24736"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:27:36","slug":"who-knew-zoomar-long-lenses-were-used-in-the-studio-the-first-example-i-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24736","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew? Zoomar Long Lenses Were Used In The Studio&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who Knew? Zoomar Long Lenses Were Used In The Studio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first example I ever saw of this was when I discovered some rare photos of &#8216;Kukla, Fran And Ollie&#8217; being done at WNBQ in Chicago. That was the first time this was done and the lens inventor, Dr. Frank Back even paid a visit to the studio to see it in action in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;KFO&#8217; started in &#8217;47 on WBKB, but moved to WNBQ in November of &#8217;48 and I think the idea of the field zoom came shortly after that and just before the show was picked up by the NBC network January 12, 1949. Here&#8217;s a look through that lens at this clip and notice the crew laughing&#8230;standard fare as this show had a lot of adult viewers too.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kekg9g819Ks&#038;ab_channel=Kukla%2CFranandOllie<\/p>\n<p>The Zoomar Field lens was a huge 27 element zoom that, as the name implies, was meant for field use, but inside, it gave a smooth and unique look to images. I think all these photos are from before 1952 because that&#8217;s about the time two smaller Zoomar studio zoom lenses came into use.<\/p>\n<p>As we see here, CBS did the same and later, local stations like Cleveland&#8217;s WXEL (now WJW) followed suit. Anybody here ever use this lens? Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/727805257257026\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Who-Knew-Zoomar-Long-Lenses-Were-Used-In-The-Studio...-The-first-example-I-eve\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/727805257257026\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477216214_551_Who-Knew-Zoomar-Long-Lenses-Were-Used-In-The-Studio...-The-first-example-I-eve\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/727805257257026\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477216214_997_Who-Knew-Zoomar-Long-Lenses-Were-Used-In-The-Studio...-The-first-example-I-eve\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/727810960589789\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Knew? Zoomar Long Lenses Were Used In The Studio&#8230; The first example I ever saw of this was when I discovered some rare photos of &#8216;Kukla, Fran And Ollie&#8217; being done at WNBQ in Chicago. That was the first time this was done and the lens inventor, Dr. Frank Back even paid a visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,782,787,725,799],"class_list":["post-24736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-star","tag-zoomar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59752,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736\/revisions\/59752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}