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- Title
PETZVAL'S LENS AND CAMERA.
- Authors
Kingslake, Rudolf
- Abstract
The article presents the third part in a series of articles about the history of photographic lenses. It focuses on the life and works of Joseph Max Petzval, inventor of wide-aperture lens suitable for portraiture. He was born on January 6, 1807 and became a member of the mathematics faculty of the University of Vienna and became successful in his lens designs. His fascination with photography pushed him to devote himself working with lenses and successfully designed the wide-aperture lens in 1839. Moreover, between 1851 and 1859 he published a 1000-page treatise on the solution of deferential solution. He died in September 1981.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIA; PETZVAL, Joseph, 1807-1891; INVENTORS; PHOTOGRAPHIC lenses; PHOTOGRAPHIC equipment; PORTRAIT photography equipment; WIDE-angle lenses; OPTICAL instruments; HISTORY
- Publication
Image, 1953, Vol 2, Issue 9, p60
- ISSN
0536-5465
- Publication type
Article