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    Biogon is the brand name of Carl Zeiss for a series of photographic camera lenses, first introduced in 1934. Biogons are typically wide-angle lenses. Biogon...
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    for the Contax included the Biotar, Biogon, Orthometar, and various Tessars and Triotars. The last important Zeiss innovation before World War II was the...
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    extended to longer and shorter focal lengths. For example, the first Zeiss Biogon, a wide-angle lens for rangefinder cameras with a focal length of 35 mm...
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    In 1954, they mated the groundbreaking new 38 mm Biogon lens designed by Ludwig Bertele of Zeiss to a shallow non-reflex body to produce the SWA (supreme...
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    available for the Rolleiflex 6000 series cameras. Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 Biotar [de] Tessar Sonnar Biogon Distagon [de] Flektogon [de] Hologon Photographic...
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    responsibility of designing the lenses, including the Biogon and Sonnar. The greatest advantage of the Zeiss lenses was the reduced number of air-to-glass surfaces...
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    Tessar (redirect from Carl Zeiss Optics)
    unit-focusing lens, was widely used in many midrange Zeiss Ikon cameras. Pancake lens Biotar [de] Planar Sonnar Biogon Distagon [de] Flektogon [de] Hologon Elmar...
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    Ludwig Bertele's Zeiss Biogon 21mm f/4.5, released in 1954 for the Contax IIA (1950, West Germany) 35mm RF, and its evolution, the Zeiss Hologon 15mm f/8...
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    Sony E-mount (redirect from Zeiss E-mount)
    Yongnuo 7Artisans Anhui ChangGeng Optical Technology Company AstrHori Carl Zeiss AG Cosina Co., Ltd. Handevision Irix Lens Samyang Optics / Rokinon Sigma...
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    datasheet" (PDF). Carl Zeiss. Retrieved 15 November 2018. "Biogon T* 2.8/21 datasheet" (PDF). Carl Zeiss. Retrieved 15 November 2018. "Biogon T* 2.8/28 datasheet"...
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    Hologon (redirect from Zeiss Hologon)
    syllable -gon, which had been used in preceding Zeiss wide-angle lens designs such as the Zeiss Distagon and Biogon. As built, the symmetrical design for the...
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    Ludwig Bertele (category Carl Zeiss AG people)
    same year, Bertele computed new optical designs for Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen, resulting in a Biogon lens with a 90° viewing-angle in 1954.: 151  This new...
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  • required mount for their lens. The Jupiter-12 lens is derived from the Zeiss Biogon design. It has six elements in four groups. Its focal length is 35mm...
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    (1962), which featured a symmetrical design similar to the contemporary Zeiss Biogon. This was succeeded by the W Rokkor-QH 21mm f/4 (1963), with slightly...
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    a true wide angle (short focus) lens, similar in construction to the Zeiss Biogon. Its rear projected far into the mirror box on an SLR, and because of...
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    faster lenses with equivalent coverage including the Wild Aviotar and Zeiss Biogon in the 1950s rendered the Metrogon obsolete,: 151  and Metrogon lenses...
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    series of articles on lens names: Distagon, Biogon and Hologon (PDF). Lenspire [blog] (Report). Carl Zeiss AG. Retrieved 15 November 2018. GB Application...
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    Hologon The Biogon is an ultra-wide-angle design by Ludwig Bertele based on a double-ended reversed-telephoto objective. It was made by Zeiss for their...
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  • Pacific Rim Camera, Reference Library. Zeiss Ikon. March 1, 1968. Retrieved 26 April 2023. "21/4.5 Zeiss Biogon for Contarex". Pacific Rim Camera, Photographica...
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  • for the Contax included the Biotar, Biogon, Orthometar, and various Tessars and Triotars. The last important Zeiss innovation before the Second World War...
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    Topogon (category Zeiss lenses)
    Topogon - Russar - Biogon - Aviogon - Hologon: La storia definitiva dei super-grandangolari simmetrici" [Hypergon - Topogon - Russar - Biogon - Aviogon - Hologon:...
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  • APO-Lanthar 110mm f/2.5 Zeiss Loxia Distagon T* 2.8/21mm (announced 2015–10) Loxia Distagon 2.4/25 (announced 2018–02) Loxia Biogon T* 2/35mm (announced...
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    body and risk damaging lens or body.[citation needed] An example is the Biogon type of lens. Overall, the ability to use adapted lenses gives Micro Four...
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    [4e/3g]): 4  and Heligon (double Gauss high-speed) normal lenses, Grandagon (Biogon-type, eight-element/four-group [8e/4g]) wide-angle lenses, Rotelar telephoto...
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    lenses which have been developed in several steps. The Super-Angulons are Biogon designs, making for huge, heavy lenses, but also giving very generous angles...
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