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In 1960, besides the T 10 S projector, there appeared a
simplified T 10 L, which has no connection for syn-
chronisation and which was later provided with an
automatic film inlay. Next to it, the top model of the T
10 series, the T 10 R automatic, made its appearance as
the improved T 10 S. It had a 12 V 150 W lamp which
gives three times more light than the 100 V 500 W
lamp of the Pantalux. The projector also had an auto-
matic film inlay and, for the first time, the possibility
of projecting a still picture and running backwards as
well. This machine later got a bad name because the
lamp-factory stopped production of 12 V 150 W lamps
with a G17q base. After some years, and a lot of
trouble, Bauer found Flekta was willing to produce this
lamp.
T10 R projector
The lenses of the T 10 series were obtained from Isco and Schacht. They often had the Bauer
name in addition to the manufacturer or only the name of the manufacturer. They are:
Bauer Traveplan (Schacht) 16 mm f1.4
Bauer Kiptagon (Isco) 16 mm f1.4
Bauer Travenon (Schacht) 20 mm f1.3
Isco Duotar 20 mm f1.5
Isco Duotar 25 mm f1.5
Vario Kiptagon (Isco) 15-25 mm f1.4

The Bauer 88 L, from 1961, is the first Bauer movie
camera with a zoom lens, namely the Iscovaron 9-30
mm f1.8. There was also a built-in blue filter which
could be used with daylight film in artificial light. Expo-
sure is fully automatic. What really was so striking here,
were the film speeds. They are single frame, 16
frames/sec, and, if the shutter release is pushed further,
it immediately becomes 64 frames/sec. It was a beautiful
piece of work and it is, of course, a selling point which
nobody was expecting.

Almost identical to the 88 L, the 88 K appeared in 1962,
ushering in a new phase. (Photo 13.) The film speeds are
now 18 frames/sec and 64 frames/sec.
18 frames/sec now became a new requirement in order
to enable the sound track film to produce tolerable
sound. In the beginning Bauer did not use striped movie
film. Bauer 88 L
What was most striking in connection with the 88 K, is the Vario 10-30 mm f1.8 which was a
Japanese product. Already, in 1960, Bauer noticed that the development of new zoom lens
systems with reflex viewfinders to match was more popular in Japan than in Germany. The result
was that Bauer now had Japanese suppliers besides German and French ones. These were the
main suppliers: Sun Optical, Kyowa, Zeika, Mutsumi, Hamica and Sankyo.
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