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#Hugo meyer lens history series#
There were different series of plasmats available, some convertible, some not. Originally designed in 1916 by Hugo Meyer, the lens has. The company ceased to exist in 1991, following the German unification. Another lens that delivers unique bokeh, the Trioplan f/2.8 has an out of focus appearance that people refer to as ‘soap bubbles’. They continued making LF lenses into the 1950's, but not the Plasmat. After WW II, they were nationalized by the GDR and later absorbed ito the communist VEB Pentacon conglomerate. 5 of this series offers a focal lenght of 210mm at an open aperture of F15. Pre-War Bolex cameras were often equipped with Hugo Meyer lenses, a German manufacturer of photographic lenses founded in the late 1800s. The Rapid Weitwinkel Aristoscop series is a true wide angle lens series, which still offered a well corrected field of view. Hugo Meyer was an old company, other lenses were the Trioplan ( a triplet for portraits) and the wide angle Aristostigmat. History: The Hugo Meyer workshop is a well known german lens manufacturer who was famous for the 'Schnellarbeiter' portrait petzval series. Rudolph who had worked for Zeiss before WW I, where he designed the Protar, Planar, and Tessar lenses, among others. On the left is a legendary Carl Zeiss Sphaerogon 1.9cm f/9 ultra wide-angle lens, and on the right an experimental variant of the Hugo Meyer Makro-Plasmat 3.5cm f/2.7 lens in modified Leica screw mount. The Plasmat was made by the company Hugo Meyer in Görlitz (Görlitz is now located at the German-Polish border) between the two World Wars. Here are two influential wide-angle designs from the Zeiss collection.
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You will often see the term "Plasmat-type" when talking about these lenses, and this is the one that gave it the name, with 6 lens elements in 4 groups, the twom outer lens elements on each side being cemented. This is the forerunner of most modern LF lenses, such as Schneiders Symmar (from 1952 on), Symmar-S, Apo-Symmar, Apo Symmar L, Rodenstocks Sironar and Apo-Sironar series the Nikkor-W series, the Fujinon W, and others.