Eisenstein readings

I consider this article hard to understand because he introduces many topics at once and confuses a little.  What I got from the reading  is that cinematography as the author introduces it, is montage.  The author mentions what montage should be compared and "how the representation of objects in the actual (absolute) proportions proper to them is, merely a tribute to orthodox formal logic." (131).  What I understood about this quote is how do we relate an object to its own logic and how we make sense of it.  To put it more simple I relate cinematography to montage in the sense that cinematography is the decision making in the lighting and the camera when recording photographic images in films and montage is a technique that uses special effects including music to introduce compressed narrative information