Erich Kästner (camera designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German cinema pioneer
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Place of Birth: Jena, Thuringia, Germany
About Erich Kästner (camera designer)
- Erich Kurt Kästner (5 April 1911 – 31 January 2005) was a German movie camera designer.
- He was born in Jena. During his work for ARRI, he invented the spinning mirror reflex shutter for film 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]).
- In 1994 he won the Bavarian Film Awards Honorary AwardHe died in Penzberg.
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