[rollei_list] Re: That JSK Xenar
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:28:24 -0700
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From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] That JSK Xenar
At 01:33 PM 9/23/05 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
Up to WW-2 Schneider seems to have made low price
lenses.
While they had a few original types they mostly built
existing designs where the patents had expired.
Richard
This really is not the case, as a quick examination of your
copy of THE
LENS COLLECTOR'S VADE MECUM will show. Schneider was always
interested in
the production of quality lenses and did so with some
prominence before the
outbreak of the Second World War. In fact, circumstances
had reached a
level where Schneider was forced to establish a second
factory in 1937 for
the production of less-capable lenses, the ISCO (I for J:
Jospeph
Schneider Company) works at Göttingen and even that plant
was called on to
produce quality lenses during the War such as the lens used
on the camera
which would become the progenitor of the Hasselblad MF SLR.
I will concede that the Zeiss lens mavens regarded
Voigtländer as their
principal rivals in those Prewar years but they were must
anxious to keep
Schneider out of the marketplace. It was only the
falling-out between Dr
Nagel and the Zeiss Foundation which gave Schneider an
opportunity to sell
first-class lenses for a first-class camera, the Kodak AG
Retina. Records
to confirm this no longer exist but I would suspect that
Zeiss did
everything in its power to keep Schneider from selling to
the likes of
Franke & Heidecke.
Schneider was part of the consortium which produced the
Xenon lens for the
Leica camera in 1935, along with Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson
and Leitz. I
will cheerfully acknowledge that this lens was not as
capable as was the
CZJ Sonnar, but the design was still a solid design and
would survive in
various forms into the first version of the Leitz Summilux
in 1962, not a
bad record.
Marc
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