Erich Kurt Kästner was a German movie camera designer.
Background
He was born in Jena.
Career
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. lieutenant allows the operator to have a viewfinder image equal to the recorded picture. He died in Penzberg.
Achievements
Kästner received a Gordon E. Sawyer Award in 1992 and an Oscar in 1973 (Class II technical award ) and 1982 (Academy Award of Merit ). In 1994 he won the Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award.
