Listen! The second half of this, I’ll admit, fairly dry history of the photographic lens (it was the only one I could find) is full of one-page biographies of inventors and designers of photographic optics – page after page of whiskery old Victorian lens jockeys. Kingslake does his best to gloss over the human drama [...]
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