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D-150 Curvulon and Kollmorgen

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Written by: Glenn Berggren Date: March 18, 2004
Lens picture by Thomas Hauerslev, February 2004

As to D-150, I got Kollmorgen to design /create a 2X magnifier to be used with their older BX 265 (4" diameter) lenses of 5" to 9", and that is what Dick Vetter was using, but in the R & D efforts with the first sample of the 2X, we found that it could handle adjustment, and that the adjustment WOULD vary the field curvature, which made it quite valuable for Vetter's installation work, so that he could result in uniform screen image focus all over the field from the first turn of the focus knob.

But this opens a very large discussion about lenses, film and field curvature, which I shall defer to a future time. As you know the last and best lenses created for 70mm films was the Ultra-HD-70 in odd focal lengths of 99, or 81mm, etc. These were far beyond in optical quality, compared to anything made from 1954 to 1990, and had the curved film shape designed into them.
 
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