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Panavision Equipment History
1950s
1954 Introduction of Micro Panatar® 1954 Introduction of Super Panatar® projection lens 1955 Introductio
n of Camera 65 1955 Introduction of Ultra Panatar® projection lens 1956 First Film made in Camera 65 (Ultra Panavision) "Raintree County" 1958 Introduction of the Auto Panatar® taking lens 1958 Panavision releases Super Panavision Widescreen in theaters 1958 Ultra Speed Panatar® released 1959 Ultra Panavision 70 released
1960s
1967 Panavision Silent Reflex (PSR) 35mm camera is introduced 1968 65mm hand-held motion picture camera is released
1970s
1972 Panaflex® - First truly silent hand held studio camera 1974 Introduction of Panaflex® X 1975 Panaflex® Lightweight is released 1976 Introduction of the Panaflex® Gold 1976 Super Speed lenses Announced 1977 Panastar® high speed camera
is released
1980s
1980 Introduction of Panacam® Video Camera 1981 Introduction of Panaflex® 16 1986 Panaflex® Platinum is introduced 1987 Panastar® II is released 1988 Introduction of Primo® 4:1 zoom lens
1990s
1990 Primo® series of prime lenses becomes available 1991 Panavision System 65 studio camera is released 1993 Introduction of Primo® 11:1 zoom lens 1994 Introduction of Primo® 3:1 zoom lens 1996 Panavision Frazier Lens is introduced 1997 Introduction of the Millennium® Camera System 1999 Panavision Millennium® XL Camera System
2000s
2000 Panavision Introduces the HD-900F High Definition Camera System 2001 Primo Macro Zoom® is released 2001 Panavision Introduces the Panavision Smartlens® 2002 Introduction of the Remote Digital Control (RDC) 2004 Hylén System is released 2004 Panavision Introduces the Genesis™ HD Camera 2004 300x HD Zoom Lens is introduced 2004 Release of the Panaflex® Millennium XL2 2004 Ultraview® HD colour viewfinder is made available 2004 Anamorphic Wide Angle Zoom Lens is released
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