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In addition, Voigtländer offered the Zoomar with its Bessamatic starting from 1959. The Zoomar was designed by Frank G. Back of Zoomar U.S.A and manufactured by Kilfitt in Munich; it is usually reckoned to be the first zoom lens specifically designed for a 35 mm "still" camera. Voigtländer lens diagrams
Voigtländer also offered a line of single lens reflex cameras, the Bessamatic/Ultramatic. After the Voigtländer brand was acquired by Carl Zeiss AG in 1956, the Vito line continued to be marketed to amateur photographers, spawning sub-lines with simplified, semi-autoexposure controls (Vitomatic and Vito Automatic) and smaller sizes (Vitoret).
The first zoom lens for still cameras was the Voigtländer-Zoomar 36-82mm f/2.8 (USA/West Germany) of 1959, [97] for Voigtländer Bessamatic series (1959, West Germany) 35mm leaf shutter SLRs. [98] It was designed by Zoomar in the United States and manufactured by Kilfitt in West Germany for Voigtländer. [ 99 ]
Prominent refers to two distinct lines of rangefinder cameras made by Voigtländer.. The first Prominent, stylized in all-caps as PROMINENT and also known as the Prominent 6×9 to distinguish it from the later camera line, was a folding, fixed-lens rangefinder camera that used 120 film and was first marketed in 1932.
A 127 film folding camera was sold by Voigtländer starting in 1933 as the Perkeo, which took 3×4 cm pictures; it offered greater portability compared to the regular Bessa line. [16] It was succeeded by the single-format Bessa 46 and Bessa 66 cameras, introduced in 1938 and sold until 1951, which took pictures in 645 and 6×6 formats ...
The Voigtländer-Petzval objective lens was revolutionary and attracted the attention of the scientific world because it was the first mathematically calculated precision objective in the history of photography. Petzval's lens established two new features: firstly, it was faster compared to previous lenses, with a maximum aperture of 1:3.6.
The original Vitessa was introduced in 1950 with a fast Ultron 50 mm f /2.0 lens. [2] It was joined later by a version with a Color-Skopar 50 mm f /3.5 (Tessar-type) lens.. Contemporary marketing materials emphasized the rapid operation of the camera: by pressing the shutter release button, positioned on the top deck for the photographer's right index finger, the camera doors opened and the ...
A twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective or "taking lens" (the lens that takes the picture), while the other is used for the viewfinder system, [ 1 ] which is usually viewed from above at waist level.