Peter Lisand all-aluminum studio pedestals

Peter Lisand Studio Pedestals

Several years ago I bought out the remaining inventory of the Peter Lisand company, a New Jersey-based manufacturer of high quality motion picture and photographic equipment. This purchase included a number of really well designed and manufactured tripods, body braces, and these excellent studio pedestals. Most of the tripods and fluid heads went very quickly, […]

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The Wilart Camera from the side

A Restored Treasure: The Extraordinary Wilart Camera

I am delighted to share with you all today this fascinating, ca. 1921 Wilart Camera restored by my good friend Michael Madden. Our quick research indicates that this camera was manufactured by the Wilart Instrument Co., Inc. of New Rochelle, New York as their all-metal professional cinema camera. Contemporary advertising from “Motion Picture News” in

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A collection of vintage light bulbs of various styles and sizes

Light Bulbs of Yore

Much of this week was taken up with doing the final inspection of several cameras so they are ready to go to their new homes, and I didn’t have time to document this process in all the chaos. While taking a breather from that, I pulled out this group of fascinating old light bulbs that

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