History of the Photographic Lens - from 1922 issue of BJP

[CCHarrison]

Please see

http://antiquecameras.net/blog.html

Thanks
Dan


Snippet of article below

http://antiquecameras.net/images/800_hl2a.jpg

[Xpres]

Great read - thanks

[Amedeus]

Wonderful to read ...

[Steven Tribe]

So easy to read!

There may be slight problem, as the British Journal of Photography is still very much alive and may not be too pleased about lengthy extracts - even from as far back as 1922!

[goamules]

In the US, anything published from 1923 to 1963 are in the public domain. In the UK, I don't know, but hobby magazines are typically scanned and put online from this period. By Google and others. I know I've read a lot of the BJP online already.

[CCHarrison]

Steven

The information has been made available via The Royal Photographic Society... This can be used... but thanks for the concern. I did however forget to credit the source - so I have done that now.

Many thanks

Dan

PS - I have found a few errors in the text, but I do enjoy how pro-British the piece and anti-German it is in terms of optical prowess. The French vs. German vs. English vs American drive for optical supremecy !!

[IanG]

Dan, can you clarify the source, the BJP was a weekly not monthly publication until quite recently. So was it in a weekly edition or the 1922 or more likely 1923 BJP Almanac (it may have been in both as the Almanacs had a digest of the best from during the year).

Thanks for posting, I've yet to find a 1922 or 1932 Almanac, they tend to be expensive.

Ian

[CCHarrison]

Ian - thanks for your post....

Sorry - this is from the The Photographic Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, not BJP.... I had BJP on the brain, but its from the TPJ of RPS.... Nov 1922.

Dan

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[CCHarrison]

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[Amy]

I think it's interesting to read how back then they were still using f-stops to measure their aperture :D

[Steven Tribe]

Dan, it does read like a transcript of speech as well!

[IanG]

Dan, it does read like a transcript of speech as well!

It's quite possibly a lecture given at the RPS.

Ian