Wollensak Lens Names?

Kino · Jan 31, 2020

Here's some interesting trivia: how the Raptar, Colortar and Micronar got their names...

March,1946 "The Camera" magazine ad.

Dan Fromm · Feb 1, 2020

Colortar? Micronar? Are you sure these are Wolly trade names?

Micronar is an MPP trade name used on lenses fitted to the Microflex. Colortar seems to be a Pathe trade name, was used on lenses fitted to the Pathescope Prince, a 9,5 mm cine camera.

Kino · Feb 1, 2020

The magazine is from 1946 and that is a scan of the ad in the magazine. What else can I say?

Kino · Feb 1, 2020

Dan Fromm said:
Colortar? Micronar? Are you sure these are Wolly trade names?

Micronar is an MPP trade name used on lenses fitted to the Microflex. Colortar seems to be a Pathe trade name, was used on lenses fitted to the Pathescope Prince, a 9,5 mm cine camera.

Maybe Wollensak never used the 2nd and 3rd place winner names and Microflex and Pathe appropriated them for their designs. Who knows?

removed account4 · Feb 1, 2020

thank goodness they gave up on all the V's, aww shucks there is that pesky veritar...

Dan Fromm · Feb 1, 2020

Kino said:
The magazine is from 1946 and that is a scan of the ad in the magazine. What else can I say?

Second and third place = unused losers.

cowanw · Feb 1, 2020

Interestingly these were to be paid in war bonds. The $500 bond cost Wollensak $350 and would have been cashed in 1954, although the terms were ultimately extended to 40 years, maturing in 1984, earning about 3.5%, which was a lower rate than the usual.

Whir-Click · Apr 11, 2020

Unused losers, maybe, but Wollensak locked up the trademark just in case.

Courtesy of the 3M Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Wollensak Lens Names?

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