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| Introduced in | 1896 |
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| Author | Paul Rudolph |
| Construction | 6 elements in 4 groups |
| Aperture | f/4.5 |
TheZeiss Planar is aphotographic lens designed byPaul Rudolph atCarl Zeiss in 1896. Rudolph's original was a six-element symmetricaldouble Gauss lens design.
While very sharp, early versions of the lens suffered fromflare due to its many air-to-glass surfaces. Before the introduction oflens coating technology, the four-elementTessar, with slightly inferior image quality, was preferred due to its better contrast. In the 1950s, when effective anti-reflective lens coatings became available, coated Planars were produced with much-improved flare resistance. These lenses used the Zeiss T coating system, which had been invented byOlexander Smakula in 1935.[1] They performed very well as normal and medium-long focus lenses for small and medium format cameras. One of the most notable Planar lenses is the high-speedf/2.0/110 mm lens for the 2000- and 200-series medium formatHasselblad cameras with a similar version available for theRolleiflex 6000 series cameras.
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