OMFA Correktar lens?

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Has anyone heard of the OMFA Correktar Doppel-Anastigmat? I've seen it in 4,5 and 6,8 versions. The 4,5 looks like a dialyte, but the front lens of the 6,8 is more curved, and could be a gauss design or a Dagor? Does anyone here know for sure? My fellow scandinavian Ole, maybe? :smile:
 

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There were five series of OMFA double-anastigmats called CORRECTAR dating back to the early Twenties: Series I, II, III are 4-4 designs, F 4.5 - 6.8 in focal lengths from 75 - 360 mm. Series IV and V are 6 lenses in 2 group designs ( same range of speeds and f.l.) The WEITWINKEL-CORRECTAR is also a 6-2 configuration. OMFA was an abbreviation of "Optisch-Mechanische Fabrik, München. ( source: Hartmut Thiele, "Deutsche Photooptik von A-Z", 2007.)
 
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Thanks for the info! Six elements in two groups is almost certainly a Dagor design.
 

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Thanks for the info! Six elements in two groups is almost certainly a Dagor design.

One shouldn't forget that there were other important 6 - 2 designs as well: for example the ORTHOSTIGMAT, patented to Rudolph Steinheil in 1893 and produced in Munich, or Voigtländer's COLLINEAR ( Kaempfer 1895).
 
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Hm, yes. Not too different designs though.
 

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Hm, yes. Not too different designs though.

A closer comparison of those designs may reveal enough essential differences to refrain from throwing Dagors, Collinears/Orthostigmats ( and not to forget: Watson's Convertible lens, also a design by von Höegh) into one basket. Whereas the Dagor halves kept strong similarities with Rudolph's Anastigmat rear triplet lens, the Steinheil and Voigtlaender, and the Watson 6 - 4 double anastigmats show distinct new "constructions" by which the Dagor's excellence ( as a combined lens) could not only be matched but outpaced as convertibles.
see: Hans Harting "Photographische Optik" 1948 p.92ff
 

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There are other 6/2 lenses such as the gundlach rectigraph.


Schneider Angulon is 6/2 more like the ortho protar than a Dagor. The Gundlach Rectigraphic was I believe a Rapid Rectilinear with an extra glass to avoid patent and license issues.
 

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Schneider Angulon is 6/2 more like the ortho protar than a Dagor.

Kingslake called the Angulon a reversed Dagor, Flügge lists it as a "Satzanastigmat", Brandt describes it as modified Gauss 2nd type design, and above it's related to the Ortho-Protar which in turn could be regarded as a devirative ot the "Protorlinse"/"Doppelamatar" decribed in D.R.P. 196734a - whereby one would re-approach the Dagor.

One can be grateful that most lenses produce clearer pictures than the many attempts to put lens designs in genealogical order. As lenses don't inherit genetic codes it is IMO rather doubtful to sort them into groups, types or families or in genera and species as if one could build up a Linnaeus system of lenses. Merely comparing obvious similitarities ( and forgetting to look at the glass combinations that decide whether a cemented surface will be collective or diffractive ) can easily lead to putting lenses into cuckoo nests.


A. H. Tronnier, the Angulon's designer, explicitely stated in his patent application (D.R.P. 579788, 1930) that his invention "refers to a modification of spherically, chromatically and astigmatically corrected double-lenses - 'Doppelobjektive' - that are made of two groups of cemented triplets whose single elements present three concave surfaces towards the diaghragm, and of which the two hollow surfaces next to the stop act as diffracting, whereas the third concave surface and the convex cemented surface [both as seen from the stop] have collecting power".

I imagine there are by far too many lenses having those characteristics to reasonably say this one or that one should be tagged as Angulon's father or grandmother.
 
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