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Innovation has a long tradition
Since the beginning in 1913, SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH
has made lenses for professionals.
Names
such as SYMMAR, XENAR, ANGULON and
COMPONON are well known all over the world.
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| 1914 |
Brandnames
SYMMAR
and COMPONAR |
| 1926 |
TELE-XENAR |
| 1930 |
ANGULON, large format lens
with 72° |
| 1960 |
SUPER-ANGULON with 105° |
| 1993 |
SUPER-ANGULON XL with 120° |
| 1996 |
APO-DIGITAR,
digital lenses
for
professional use ( 2.8/28 up to 5.6/150 ) |
| 1999 |
SUPER-SYMMAR XL
ASPHERIC, first large format lens
with aspherical surface |
| 2002 |
APO-DIGITAR 5.6/24
XL - 100° |
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Experience in zoom lenses
| 1957 |
Starting calculation of zoom-lenses |
| 1959 |
VARIOGON 2.8/10-40 mm for 8-mm
film
first SCHNEIDER-VARIOGON |
| 1969 |
COLOR-TV-VARIOGON 2.1/18-200 mm
first SCHNEIDER Television Zoom-lens |
| 1985 |
TV-VARIOGON 1.4/11-385 mm
first SCHNEIDER Zoom-lens without cams ( electronic
steering ) |
| 1989 |
TV-VARIOGON 1.7/6-70 mm with two
aspherical lenses |
| now |
Zoom-lenses for industrial applications (
VARIOGON and BETAVARON ) |
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Experience with aspherical elements
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| 1976 |
Aspherical lens for
VARIOGON 1.8/7-56 mm
( placed in front, it reduced the short focal length
from 7mm to 4 mm ) |
| 1989 |
High quality glass aspherical lens
in
TV-VARIOGON 1.7/6-70 mm |
| 1996 |
First aspherical lens in large format
lens
SUPER-SYMMAR XL asperic |
| 1999 |
Starting production of high quality
grinded and polished aspherical glass lenses |
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