Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As President Eisenhower paused while rehearsing his televised speech to the nation on the Korean war's end in 1953, New York Times Magazine Photographer George Tames noticed that Ike had taken off his glasses and, with head tilted slightly to the left, was staring thoughtfully into space. Edging...
¶ Germany's Rolleiflex has a cheaper, smaller model. Available by midsummer, the Rolleiflex 4x4 with Xenar 3.5 lens has all the features of the regular Rolleiflex plus easier loading, and a faster knob to replace crank winding. Price: $149.50.
¶ Japan's $99.50 Minolta Autocord, introduced last year as the cheapest, quality twin-lens reflex camera anyone could expect, is being superseded by an even less expensive model: a new automatic Yashica-Mat at only $75.50, which will give budget-conscious amateurs near-professional tools.
Looking over the show, Sylvania Electric Products Inc. President Don G. Mitchell told U.S. camera fans that they can soon expect even more wonders. Said he: "The camera of the 1960s will use electronics to adjust the lens, cock the shutter and wind the film. You will be able to...
The device, an infra-red stellar photometer, picks up and records electrically infra-red radiation with wave lengths three to four times longer than those of visible light. The Milky Way is lens-shaped, and ordinary visible light cannot penetrate the great clouds of interstellar dust that obscure the galactic...