We all know Century\u2019s front adapters for video cameras from the 1990s are on the questionable side of funky, but did you know they started with groundbreaking products way before you might have thought?<\/p>\n
Christo Dimitri Koudounis was born in 1923 and served as a combat cinematographer on a Douglas A26 in the Pacific theatre during WWII.<\/p>\n
Century Photo Supplies would not only invent some long telephoto lenses but pioneer the concept of taking existing optical designs and rehousing them for professional use. Every modern rehousing company \u2014 Iron Glass, Ancient Optics, TLS, Zero Optik \u2014 walks a path that Koudounis paved in postwar Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We all know Century\u2019s front adapters for video cameras from the 1990s are on the questionable side of funky, but did you know they started with groundbreaking products way before you might have thought? Christo Dimitri Koudounis was born in 1923 and served as a combat cinematographer on a Douglas A26 in the Pacific theatre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[71,72,74,73,75],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-history","tag-century-optics","tag-christo-koudounis","tag-hollywood","tag-lens-rehousing","tag-wwii-cinematography"],"yoast_head":"\n