"How it's made" on Discovery channel

[Scott Kathe]

You're right poco, some of the segments are rather silly. They designate roughly the same amount of time for, say, golf tees, as they do scissor lifts.



I have Singh Ray filters. When I saw the woman dipping the Lee grads I imagined that the same imprecise approach was behind the off-kilter horizon of my 3-stop hard Singh-Ray grad. I don't know how they make them at Singh Ray; I just know that the QC could be better. I returned my last filter, a 3-stop soft because the density was 2 1/3rd stops at the darkest margin.

At the prices Singh-Ray charges I'd return anything I wasn't 100% satisfied with.

Scott

[Robert Brummitt]

OK, I have one person who says Ebony cameras. Any other makers?
I Think a segment on the wood field cameras would be very interesting. Every time, I go out to photograph, someone is bound to ask me what kind of camera, how old is it and if I made it. They always state of beautiful it is.
There is a bunch of craftsmanship that goes into a quality camera. If I get more info from you and catch the website of the show? I'm going to make the suggestion.
If enough of us do it then maybe they will!

[walter23]

There's actually a nice video on how camera lenses are made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k

Wow, that's so cool.

Canon had some promotional material / "tour of the lens factory" videos up once, but half of it was just this suave announcer voice repeating the phrase "The Canon five-hundred millimeter eph-four ell eye-ess you-ess-emm!". This tour of the JML factory is much more interesting.

[Gordon Moat]

OK, I have one person who says Ebony cameras. Any other makers? . . . . . . . .

My preference would be for Linhof, like a factory tour, or perhaps Arca Swiss. Lots of metal being turned and milled. However, I don't watch television much, so I have only seen this show a few times. Last I recall seeing was one about making imaging sensors, and I believe they were at Dalsa.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat Photography

[Shen45]

There's actually a nice video on how camera lenses are made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k

Thanks for the link Cyrus. I really enjoyed that.

Steve