Bolar Bol anastigmat 1:3 Kern Aarau. .

[hofsethpaul]

in 1923 mr. Bogopolsky designed the cinegraph BOL which was intended both to record and project 35mm cinefilm.

i presume the lens is calculated for cineframe use, not for larger formats.

The Kern/ Paillard connection remained throughout the years. The only early Kern 8mm lens I have is labelled Genevar presumably after the city where the early Bol compny ws based. Not a perticularly common object, like the 35mm macro-Switars and their f: 0,9 creations.

I assume other Kern creations are similarly stored away by collectors since that company was eaten by Wild/Heerbrugg long ago.

p.