2023 NELSONIAN® AWARDS

Presenting: The NELSONIAN® AWARDS for 2023

INFINITY PHOTO-OPTICAL COMPANY congratulates ALL.

This award—a golden trophy MikroMak™ prime lens—is an accolade for meritorious and innovative use of Infinity’s unique Nelsonian® lens systems: optics which are designed upon microscopical principles, many of which date back to those proposed by Edward Milles Nelson.

Called by many “the English Abbe,” Nelson established criteria—which led future scientists such as F. Zernike to develop phase contrast and other devices—by observing anomalies in Abbe’s diffraction theory, such as “the invisible image.” We now honor his memory.

* Since our lenses have become so popular, much superb work has been done with them.  In light of this, the Board of Infinity Photo-Optical has decided to limit the winning  awards to two selections that exemplify excellence that is extraordinary.

The award is issued the year after the imagery was captured.
Nelsonian Award

This Year’s Recipients are:

Chris VanDerschaaf DP –

Winner’s Website

For innovative uses of TS-160, demonstrating its unique potentials for table top and high speed cinematography as exemplified below.

Peter Chapman DP –

Winner’s Website

For the literal invention of 3-D commercial cinematography which we submit should be termed to do a “Chapman” shot.  Now, it is possible to keep an object as well as participants feet away in simultaneous focus by utilizing the TS-160.
Examples of the “Chapman” are exemplified by the two videos below, shot for the South Dakota Department of Health.