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Administratively speaking, Cooke Optics is a spin-off of Taylor-Hobson, created after Taylor-Hobson shifted its focus to metrology instruments. The brand name Cooke originally came from the company T. Cooke & Sons of York, a manufacturer of telescopes. The optical manager of that company, H. Dennis Taylor (no relation), devised the Cooke ...
The Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 is one of the largest relative aperture (fastest) lenses in the history of photography. [1] The lens was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to capture the far side of the Moon in 1966. [2][3][better source needed][4] Stanley Kubrick used these lenses when shooting his film Barry ...
Kiron Corporation was a subsidiary of Kino Precision Industries, Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer of photographic lenses.Kiron was based in Carson, California, operating in the 1980s primarily as the United States distributor of Kiron lenses, which were offered in a variety of mounts compatible with many popular 135 film manual focus single-lens reflex camera systems.
Leica Camera AG (/ ˈlaɪkə /) is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, and rifle scopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany. The name Leica is derived from the first three letters of the founder's surname (Leitz) and the first two of ...
Pentax is one of the few camera manufacturers still producing medium format cameras up to 1999. There are two offerings, one in the 6×7 format—the Pentax 67 II, and one in the 6×4.5 format—Pentax 645NII. Both use 120 or 220 roll film. These cameras build on the Pentax SLR design experience.
A collection of lenses a DSLR owner might have: 50mm F1.4, 17-40mm F4, 100mm F2.8 Macro, 24-70mm F2.8, 70-200mm F2.8. This article details lenses for single-lens reflex and digital single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs and DSLRs respectively). The emphasis is on modern lenses for 35 mm film SLRs and for "full-frame" DSLRs with sensor sizes less than ...