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Brian Caldwell earned a Ph.D. in optics from The University of Rochester in 1988. He has 30 years experience in the fields of lens design and optical engineering, with more than 100 different manufactured products to his credit. In 1988, he founded Optical Data Solutions to develop LensVIEW, an extensive database of more than 30,000 optical designs from the patent literature. After working for a few years at Projectavision and Concord Camera, he founded Caldwell Photographic Inc. in 2001 to do independent consulting and to develop and manufacture optical products. He has worked as an optical design consultant to Panavision since 2001. Commercial products co-developed with Wilfried Bittner include a 60mm UV-VIS-IR apochromat licensed for manufacture by Jenoptik Optical Systems, and a universal photographic focal reducer currently marketed by Metabones as the Speed Booster.
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