Xenar lens design book

Buy lens design fundamentals 2 by rudolf kingslake isbn. Lens design was more conceptual in the early days of lens design since computational lens design had not been developed. The high resolution telecentric design provides even image brightness and. Schneider camera lenses are renowned for their quality and have equipped.

After wwii the design was used by saburo murakami at nikon as the basis for the nikkorn 1. This lens shares the same optical and mechanical characteristics as the other lenses in the set, making switching between. Both lenses, the xenar and the ektar are four element tessar designes and as such barely cover the 4x5 format. Ray tracing and aberration theory was invented during this period. The 89mm lens was standard on the kodak hobbyist enlarger. Schneider 1072028 cinexenar iii wide angle photography life.

The schneider optics 1072028 cine xenar iii wide angle lens is an 50mm lens with a plmount that is designed for digital cinematography, and covers a super 35mm frame. Negative copied using pentax k1 with vst vsl1205605v 120mm f5. This is an impressively well engineered, all brass constructed lens, with a beautiful bright chrome finish. The illustrations above are from schneiders 25th anniversary book from 1938. Until august of 1974, the cameras were still equipped with a carl zeiss german made tessar 3,440mm lens, a construction with 4 elements. These 4 element tessar design lenses were used on large format enlargers where relatively small enlargements were needed. Both the retina ibs lens and the m42 lens has four elements in three groups in a tessartype design. Flash synchronization up to 11600th long focal length, tacksharp with minimal vibration compact and light weight design metal. Golden ricoh 16 subminiature spy camera wtelephoto lens 750 ending today at 11. Both lenses are treated with abrasion resistant coating. The glass is clean and scratch free, showing only typical amounts of surface and interior dust.

The angle of coverage simply refers to the imageforming cone of a lens. Camera lenses have been discussed in a large number of books and articles. Schneiderkreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company jos. This is only the rear element from the schneider 800mm f12 apotele xenar lens. The tessar is a famous photographic lens design conceived by the german physicist paul rudolph in 1902 while he worked at the zeiss optical company and patented by zeiss in germany. They will cover, but not with room for front rise and tilt. The book explains how and why each new lens type was developed, and why most. The telecentric optical design provides even illumination of the sensor and virtually no. From an early lens still being manufactured for use in lowcost cameras to designs made possible through such innovations as lens coating, rareearth glasses, and computer aided lens design and testing, the author details each major advance in design and fabrication. Used schneider cinexenar iii 50mm lens with canon mount. Schneider redesigned the xenar after the war, so the later 2,8 version is a four element lens. Schneiderkreuznach 25th jubilee book describes it for special purposes, a new design of the xenar has been introduced, and it is intended. This is definitely something to read if youve already started designing a game, or have some experience in game design. In 1930 tronnier patented an improvement of the xenon design with three attached rear lenses, an eight element f1.

Make offer rollei schneider kreuznach tele xenar 180mm f2. The art of game design a book of lenses jesse schell carnegie mellon university amsterdam boston heidelberg london new york oxford paris san diego. Each lens in this set features a telecentric design with the same dimensions, focusgear positions, and color matching standards. The lens features a telecentric design, which provides even illumination across the digital sensor and avoids darkening in the corners of the image. The more airglass surfaces, the more flare, and until lens coating came into widespread use in the 1950s, this was a strong incentive to lens designers to keep the number of groups to a minimum. As regards the content, this book is an excellent introduction to the history of the photographic lens. See the lens section in ansel adams book the camera or just be confident that any decent lens made since 1950 should be far better than youd ever dream if all youve ever shot is digital or 35mm.

By examining the examples of relatively simple lens designs, it is actually easier to dissect why the lens. The xenar uses a tessar type optical formula, originally designed by paul. We have not included any specific design examples of lenses for largeformat cameras. A nice lens for distant tree portraits, landscape details, clouds at sunset provided the lens hood is used. The xenar is a good lens, but even in the 150mm size, there is little room for movements.

When exchanged with the 600mm f9 apotele xenar \s rear element, the lens group effectively becomes the same as the 600mm f9 apotele xenar. The schneiderkreuznach xenar, rodenstock ysar, voigtlander skopar, are just a. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. Its optical design is different from that of the analogous lens for the rollei sl35 system, which is the later enhanced lens. The 4 x 5 camera has been in use for over 100 years, so old gear is fine. This is a measure of the entire image circle of the lens.

A standard portrait lens with applications in fashion, beauty, lifestyle and sports. Schneiders inexpensive, classic xenar asymmetrical, anastigmatic, 4element, 3group lens design was introduced in 1919, and is largely unchanged from the original zeiss tessar formula. In addition, the 150mm ls is also ideal for nature photography due to very little camera vibration using leaf shutter only. Regardless, it carries with it quite a bit of good advice. The uncoated lens performs quite well in this backlit view. In spite of that, a lot of lens design books and textbooks that i have read rely. Rent a schneider cinexenar iii ef mount cinema lens set. Used schneider cinexenar iii 25mm ft lens with canon. The lens can be used with 2k4k5k cinema cameras optical. Like the 5mm f4 telexenar, the hood is a press fit and becomes loose with time. It was produced by schneiderkreuznach for the contax and edixa cameras, the first m42 mount cameras ever produced.

It is part of a range of available lenses that includes 18, 25, 35, 50, 75 and 95mm. If one is after the detailed mathmatics of optical design, this is a good book. Chapter 16 handbook of optics photonics research group. The schneider cine xenar iii cinema lens set for canon is designed specifically for efs mount cameras and for super 35 sensors the image circle for these lenses is 31. It is easy to read and covers hundreds of lenses in greater or lesser detail, with a useful index of lenses at the back. This tends to be similar for a number of different focal lengths that are made from the same basic lens design. Tele xenar of 7,5 cm, the biotar 2,0, and the xenon 1,9 lens. The design is unusual for a 50mm in that the hood is integral to the body of the lens design with the front element very deeply recessed into the. The edixa xenar lenses are deceptively uncomplicated.

See more ideas about lens, vintage cameras and camera lens. Despite the fact, the m42 version is more appreciated because of a. The problems of photographic lens design, creating a lens for a task that would cover a large, flat image plane, were well known even before the invention of photography due to the development of lenses to work with the focal plane of the camera obscura. If acquiring an original rollei filter, which by the way are extremely well constructed, you will need a type ii filter as it is made to fit the rolleicords xenar f3.

This is an update of the superangulon lens design, incorporating modern glass and multicoating technologies, and an expanded angle of coverage. Marc, the information can be found in prochnows book. The camera was used in several german fighter planes like the messerschmitt bf 109 and 110. A 4 element dialyte design was marketed as the kodak enlarging ektanon f8, 10 inch. The invention of the camera in the early 19th century led to an array of lens designs intended for photography. In june 1971, rollei transferred the production of the rollei 35 camera from germany to singapore.