[LargeFormat] Double Protar Lens

[Graeme Hird]

So Richard,

When are you putting a book out? You seem to be the pre-eminent authority on
lenses (and indeed on any LF photographic equipment). I'd love to know that
your wisdom is captured somewhere other than on the transient electrons of
the internet. Not that I'd like to see you stop answering the questions so
often posed here and on other forums.

Cheers,

Graeme.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Double Protar Lens


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@sympatico.ca>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Double Protar Lens
>
>
> You frequently refer to Kingslake's book. I have his "Lenses
> in Photography"
> but he published many others; which do you find most useful?
>
>
>   Rudolf Kingslake was a prolific writer. Virtually
> everything he wrote is worth reading.
> _Lenses in Photography_ is a good exposition of basic optics
> as applied to photography. This was reprinted by the SPIE
> but I couldn't find it just now. Worth another look.
>  _A History of the Photographic Lens_ 1989, San Diego, The
> Academic Press ISBN 0-12-408640-3
>   Has been in and out of print. Don't know the current
> status.
> _The PHotographic Manufacturing Companies of Rochester, New
> York_ 1997, George Eastman House  ISBN 0-935398-22-8 (pbk.)
>   More technical books include:
> _Applied Optics and Optical Engineering_ 1965, Academic
> Press
>
>   As someone mentioned Kingslake assembled the chapter on
> lenses in _Handbook of Photography_ Henney and Dudley, 1939,
> McGraw-Hill
>   Its worth checking the cumulative index for the _Journal
> of the Optical Society of America_ in which Kingslake
> published numerous papers.
>   He also published a number of articles in _History of
> Photography_ a journal published in the 1960s through I
> think the 1980s.
>   A short version of the book on Rochester companies appears
> on the web at:
> http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~ardavis/history/kingslake.html
>
>   A good short biography of Kingslake appears at:
> http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/jul02/kingslake.html
>
>  This has a at least a partial list of books but not papers.
> He published at least seventy scientific papers during his
> lifetime and numerous others on the history of lenses and
> related subjects.
>
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
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