Viagron
Cialisor
Erecton
All sounds good to me
It seems to have been named as part of a 5 year plan:Lens names is a wide and often puzzling field.
One common lens which name I always wondered about, and so far not dared to ask, is the Industar.
It sure was not the first mass produced soviet camera-lens and thus hardly could have been taken as praisal for the industry. Or was it ??
It seems to have been named as part of a 5 year plan:
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-38628.html
Well, I looked through hundreds of lens names. You can divide them into names hinting via Greek or Latin at their characteristics, referring to the manufacturer or being pure fantasy-names.
My all-time-favourite could have become
the “SCHNELLARBEITER” lens.
I don’t think the name is related to the aperture.
(However there is quite a chance that its name relates to the lens designer E. Arbeit.)
I wonder if my idea that some manufacturers, with earlier (and maybe some current) lenses ended the lens name with a reference to what the lens formula was. i.e. -AR. Examples: Zeiss-Tessar, Elmar-E. Leitz Tessar, Ektar-Eastman Kodak Tessar, Xenar- Schneider Tessar. Made sense to me........Regards!Hi Ole,
yes, "A-" means not (or without) here.
"Planat" comes from "planaein" , greek for to wander, here spherical aberrations are meant.
So Aplanat is a lens without / with reduced spherical aberrations.
Btw, the word "planet" comes from "planaein" , too...
The latin word "planus" means flat. On microscope optics a common suffix like in "Plan-Apochromat".
Best
Jens
Yes, indeed.Schnellarbeiter = schnell arbeiter = fast worker (literal German), no? I suspect you know that AgX.
I wonder if my idea that some manufacturers, with earlier (and maybe some current) lenses ended the lens name with a reference to what the lens formula was. i.e. -AR. Examples: Zeiss-Tessar, Elmar-E. Leitz Tessar, Ektar-Eastman Kodak Tessar, Xenar- Schneider Tessar. Made sense to me........Regards!
summilux sound like a sum of lux or lots of light to me.Something that has baffled me ever since becoming involved with photography is the thinking behing naming lenses. I've read that Tessar comes from a Greek word which I do not know, but that has something to do with its four element design. Where do the names like Summicron, Summilux, Rodagon, Angulon, Raptar, Componon, Xenon, Claron. Noctilux I think I get, f/1 so it's good at night and the word nocturnal makes me think that Nocti- might be Latin, but where does the -lux come from? Anyways, just curious about all this! Thanks again,
- Justin
I've read that Tessar comes from a Greek word which I do not know
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