Here\u2019s a little story about Astro\u2019s connection to Cooke, strange coatings, and the most enigmatic 75mm lens out there.<\/p>\n
Most lens designs are nowhere near as revolutionary as marketing people and historians alike would have you believe, but more so an evolution of previous scientific and engineering contrivances. Paul Rudolph\u2019s oh-so-revolutionary Planar was technically just the evolvement of the works of Alvan Clark, who built up his works on Carl Steinheil, who built up his works on Friedrich Gauss, who built up his work on Joseph Frauenhofer. Nobody genuinely reinvented the wheel.<\/p>\n
However, Rudolph\u2019s outcome was just so profoundly ground-breaking because he was the first one to truly get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s a little story about Astro\u2019s connection to Cooke, strange coatings, and the most enigmatic 75mm lens out there. Most lens designs are nowhere near as revolutionary as marketing people and historians alike would have you believe, but more so an evolution of previous scientific and engineering contrivances. Paul Rudolph\u2019s oh-so-revolutionary Planar was technically just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[63,32,62,64,18,34,20],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-glass","tag-75mm","tag-astro-berlin","tag-cooke","tag-paul-rudolph","tag-planar","tag-rare-lenses","tag-vintage-lenses"],"yoast_head":"\n