Designed in the 1930's, Bausch and Lomb's original Baltar lenses represented the height of American motion picture optics at the time. They are sharp and contrasty, with gentle corner fall-off on the wide end. Although only single-coated (a huge technological leap at the time), they resist veiling glare surprisingly well, even with point sources in the frame. As a set, they possess a more consistent aesthetic than other lenses of that era, or even their successors, the Super Baltars.
