[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss Lens Book



Well, I have two of the three volumes but haven't yet picked up the one on
early CZJ lenses as really being outside of my area of interest, though I
will pick it up the next time I send in order in for some books on old
cameras. Thiele has self-published these and the main CZJ one is on either
its second or third edition by now. They are quite good albeit the
information on the Oberkochen lenses has some questionable data on the TLR
Mutars which Charlie Barringer is trying to sort out with Thiele.

These books are highly recommended. They are avaiilable from Petra Kellers
in the US and from Peter Loy in the UK, as well as from Lindemann's in
Germany.

Marc

The book I got an excerpt of is a survey of lenses by all German makers, a different book from the three volume set on Zeiss.
I looked at Petra Keller's site but could not find this one, perhaps I didn't use the right search terms so I will look again. I was surprized because its just the sort of thing she usually has.
Unfortunately, the book does not have schematic drawings. It gives the lens types only as number of elements and groups. This can be confusing because the same description can apply to quite different lenses. For instance, both a Planar and a Plasmat can be described as six elements in four groups and both a simple double Gauss lens and a Dialyte can be described as four air-spaced elements. Nonethess the charts are very interesting and valuable. Thiele also has an extensive list of German patents. The book does not appear to be expensive.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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