How Kodak lenses are (were) made.

[Jim Andrada]

And here's how it's done today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovxtgj4SsiI

[Andrew O'Neill]

I love watching stuff like that. Thank you for posting!

[David Karp]

That was fun! Thanks.

[Jim Graves]

I'll never complain about the price of a lens again.

[Shen45]

Not that I didn't, but I have so much more respect for my Kodak manufactured lenses. Thanks for posting. I really didn't realise the size of the Kodak lens making facilities.

[Ari]

Ok, I'm definitely not selling any of my Ektars.

[goamules]

When people say "it's not hard to make a lens, someone should make a new [insert desirable lens type here]...." show them this film. Photography was a huge consumer pastime, along with military, comercial uses. The money Kodak, Wollensak, all the Rochester companies spent on buildings, equipment, chemicals, is staggering. The lines of thousands of workers walking into dozens of plants like this back in the 1950s is amazing. Imagine all the people that worked there, bought houses and cars, raised good families, and retired due to this industry. Today....a worker can be a burger flipper or door greeter. It's really sad to think America used to be such a manufacturing powerhouse. Now we've given it all away, letting overseas workers do all of the above.

[Tin Can]

+1.

[Darin Boville]

Nice. Thanks,

--Darin

[Tracy Storer]

Wow ! Pretty sure the "lens designer" the silver haired fellow working at a desk, is Rudolf Kingslake !
How cool is that ?