Erich Kästner (camera designer)
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Erich Kurt Kästner (born April 5, 1911 in Jena, died January 31, 2005 in Penzberg) was an Academy Award-winning German movie camera designer.
During his work for ARRI he invented the spinning mirror reflex shutter for movie cameras, which was first used in the Arriflex 35 in 1937. It allows the operator to have a viewfinder image equal to the recorded picture.
Kästner received a Gordon E. Sawyer Award in 1992 and an Oscar in 1973 (Class II technical award [plaque]) and 1982 (Academy Award of Merit [statuette]).[1]
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- ^ Search result: Erich Kaestner. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
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