Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙MINIATURES. Rollei-Werke has developed its first precision miniature camera for standard 35-mm. film, the Rollei 35, priced just under $125. Other tiny cameras have been on the market for years, but they sacrificed quality by using miniature film. The Rollei 35 is hardly bigger than a king...
∙REFLEX CAMERAS. The single-lens reflex camera, the most popular machine among amateurs, was displayed in many new varieties. Zeiss unveiled its $500 single-lens Contarex Electronic with an electronically controlled shutter, and the $100 Icarex 126 equipped to use easy-loading Kodapak film. Rollei, which made the first...
...LENSES. Improved optical glass and computer calculations have led to new lenses that were impossible to make before. Zeiss has an f0.70 lens, 100 times faster than the human eye in daylight, for general photography, and a 110° wide-angle lens free of distortions. Schneider has a movie-projection lens that without alterations can handle nor mal and widescreen, Cinemascope and Todd-AO film...
There was a scene where Joan Fontaine was supposed to faint at a coroner's inquest, and I wanted to get the effect, but nobody could lick it. From 1939, I tried again several times. And it wasn't until Vertigo, when we had to have it that it was...
HITCHCOCK: First of all, we have to explain the perspective of various lenses. In other words, when you look through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...