Jacques Bolsey: Who Is The Genius Behind The Bolsey Corporation?

[@GONZOFAM7]

I was given a model B2 with filter kit. They are in beautiful shape and work well. The focus is a bit still so I'll use in zone focus.

[@donaldlampert331]

Nice cinematic biographic history! Thank you!

[@cappysdad383]

Interesting history of Bolsey and his cameras. I collect and use film still cameras but never had an interest in movie cameras until I saw a beautiful Bolex H16 in an antique store at a price I could not pass up. That led to getting a B2, Jubilee and C. Thanks for your video!

[@CameraCuriosity]

Oh nice! The H16 is suuper beautiful! I haven’t been able to find one yet.

[@alcozome]

Excellent video - Just subscribed

[@s.w.2779]

“He designed the most important motion-picture camera of all time” is plain rubbish. There is not one most important motion-picture camera and if yet, it would be the Cinématographe by Lumière, Moisson, and Carpentier. The Cinégraphe Bol was first presented at the Geneva trade fair of 1923. Whether design began already in 1919 can be disputed. The Bolex camera for 16-mm. film is not the same as the Paillard-Bolex H-16 or H-9 of 1935. The two designs differ fundamentally. The H was not the first amateur motion-picture camera for the mass market, that is just wrong. There have been a number of other makes for the mass market years before, the Victor, the Bell & Howell Filmo, the Ciné-Kodak of course, then the Cine-Nizo from Munich, Germany (1925), Stewart-Warner, Peko, Moveo, and more. The Wollensak f/4.5 was not “an absolutely excellent lens for the time” but a low to middle-class system, namely a triplet after the Cooke portrait lens of 1893. Way better lenses such as the Tessar, Opic-Biotar-Xenon or Ernostar existed since 1902 and 1920, respectively.