{"id":121429,"date":"2019-09-18T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=121429"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:35:07","slug":"ten-greatest-lenses-history-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/round-ups\/ten-greatest-lenses-history-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 10 greatest lenses ever made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenses came before cameras. In fact, many of the best-known names in photography \u2013 Leitz, Zeiss and Voigtl\u00e4nder to name but three \u2013 began life as lens and optical instrument makers before diversifying into camera manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest camera lenses consisted of a single piece of glass with a convex curve on both sides. While this could focus an image on a flat area, it couldn\u2019t bring light rays of different colours to the same point of focus, resulting in what is known as chromatic aberration. To correct this, lens designers began combining groups of lenses, with both convex and concave surfaces, in such a way that they cancelled out each other\u2019s aberrations and so produced a sharper image. In this way, camera lenses were developed and evolved.<\/p>\n<p>Famous lens names echo through the history of photography: Biotar, Flektagon, Helios, Nikkor, Nokton, Rokkor, Skopar, Skoparon, Sonnar, Summar, Summicron, Takumar, Tessar, Ultron, Xenotar, Zuiko\u2026 the list goes on and on. We could fill these pages with the story of the development and evolution of these and other lens landmarks. But we\u2019re not going to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, here\u2019s a quick overview of some of the longest, shortest, biggest, smallest, widest and fastest lenses in photographic history, along with the cameras with which many of them were so inextricably linked.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121422&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121422\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses Daguerreotype camera lens\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg?resize=300,201 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg?resize=598,400 598w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg?resize=900,602 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg?resize=562,376 562w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Daguerreotype-camera-lens.jpg?resize=600,400 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Credit: \u00c5ke Hultman<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1839: Daguerreotype camera lens<\/h2>\n<p>To begin at the beginning, the first classic camera lens must be the one used by the camera that introduced the world\u2019s first viable method of photography. That was the daguerreotype camera. Its lens was made by Paris opticians Charles and Vincent Chevalier in a plano-convex design (curved on one side, flat on the other) that gave a focal length of 15.5in and a working aperture of f\/14. The lens was bound in brass, while a pivoting cover plate on the front acted as a crude shutter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121426&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 639px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121426\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-Petzval.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses The Petzval\" width=\"619\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-Petzval.jpg 619w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-Petzval.jpg?resize=300,291 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-Petzval.jpg?resize=413,400 413w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-Petzval.jpg?resize=562,545 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Credit: 2018 by Auction Team Breker, Cologne, Germany (www.breker.com)<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1840: The Petzval<\/h2>\n<p>Named after its designer, Austrian scientist Josef Max Petzval, this was the first photographic lens where the design was computed mathematically before construction. Using two pairs of elements separated by a space, it had an aperture of f\/3.6, which allowed shorter-than-before shutter speeds that made daguerreotype portraiture truly feasible. An all-metal Voigtl\u00e4nder camera fitted with the Petzval lens in 1841 became the first purpose-made portrait camera. In 2013, 3,000 Kickstarter backers funded the production of a modern version of the Petzval lens for use on DSLRs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121424\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Suttons-liquid-lens.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses Suttons liquid lens\" width=\"421\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Suttons-liquid-lens.jpg 421w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Suttons-liquid-lens.jpg?resize=300,428 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Suttons-liquid-lens.jpg?resize=281,400 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/>\n<h2>1859: Sutton\u2019s liquid lens<\/h2>\n<p>Inspired by one of those water-filled toys that are shaken to create a snowstorm inside a dome, English photographer Thomas Sutton patented a lens encompassing a sphere of glass filled with water, capable of producing images on a curved surface. The result was one of the world\u2019s first wideangle lenses, with a 120\u00b0 angle of view and a central stop of f\/12. It is most famous for being used in the Sutton Panoramic wet-plate camera successfully made, after a false start by its first manufacturer, by London optician and instruments maker Thomas Ross in 1861.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121434\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses MTO 500\" width=\"1000\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg?resize=300,198 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg?resize=607,400 607w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg?resize=900,593 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-MTO-500-1.jpg?resize=562,370 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n<h2>1944: MTO 500 catadioptric lens<\/h2>\n<p>The first general-purpose catadioptric, or mirror, lens came from Russia. The configuration of this type of lens sees light enter through the front element to hit a concave mirror at the back of the lens barrel, from where it is reflected to another mirror behind the front element, back through an aperture in the rear mirror and out through traditional lens elements on to the film. The result is a long focal length in a shorter-than-normal lens barrel. For the MTO, that meant a 500mm focal length in a barrel only 180mm long and 80mm diameter. It focused down to 4m and the aperture was fixed at f\/8. Mirror lenses enjoyed popularity mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121425&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121425\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses The De Vere Long Tom\" width=\"1000\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg?resize=135,100 135w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg?resize=300,224 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg?resize=537,400 537w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg?resize=900,671 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-The-De-Vere-Long-Tom.jpg?resize=562,419 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Credit: Andrew Sanderson Photography<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1953: The De Vere Long Tom<\/h2>\n<p>It was Coronation Day and the press needed a picture of Elizabeth II on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The problem was, they couldn\u2019t get close enough, and telephoto lenses for the large-format cameras used by press photographers in those days were not available. So De Vere, more famous for its enlargers, built one for the purpose. The lens had a 1,000mm focal length and used a 5x4in film back from a Graflex camera. Only three were made. This one was used by <em>The Star<\/em> newspaper (now defunct and no connection to today\u2019s <em>Daily Star<\/em>).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121427\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses Voigtlander zoomar\" width=\"1000\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg?resize=300,204 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg?resize=587,400 587w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg?resize=900,613 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Voigtlander-zoomar.jpg?resize=562,383 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n<h2>1959: Voigtl\u00e4nder Zoomar<\/h2>\n<p>There were zoom lenses for television and film cameras before this one, but the Zoomar was the first production zoom lens for a 35mm still camera. It was designed by optical engineer Frank G Back, who also coined the word \u2018zoom\u2019, when applied to lenses. Compared to today, the focal length range of 36-82mm was small but successfully covered wideangle to medium telephoto on a 35mm format. The zoom was operated by a push-pull control around the barrel, and the maximum aperture was f\/2.8. Although eventually made in a variety of lens mounts, the Zoomar was mostly associated with the Voigtl\u00e4nder Bessamatic 35mm SLR.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121428&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121428\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses Zeiss Plannar\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg?resize=630,355 630w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg?resize=900,507 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Zeiss-Plannar.jpg?resize=562,316 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Credit: Westlicht Photographica Auction<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1966: Zeiss Planar 50mm f\/0.7<\/h2>\n<p>In 1928, Zeiss formulated the design for what would one day be the world\u2019s fastest lens. In 1941, the German Nazi party funded its development for use in equipment to guide weapons at night, resulting in a 70mm f\/1 lens. Then, in 1966, American space agency NASA revived the project to produce a lens capable of photographing the dark side of the moon. Zeiss completed production of ten 50mm f\/0.7 lenses, of which NASA bought six, Zeiss kept one and film director Stanley Kubrick bought three to shoot a candle-lit scene in his film Barry Lyndon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121419&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 644px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121419\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-6mm-Fisheye-Nikkor.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses 6mm Fisheye Nikkor\" width=\"624\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-6mm-Fisheye-Nikkor.jpg 624w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-6mm-Fisheye-Nikkor.jpg?resize=300,288 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-6mm-Fisheye-Nikkor.jpg?resize=416,400 416w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-6mm-Fisheye-Nikkor.jpg?resize=562,540 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Picture courtesy of The Real Camera Company<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1972: 6mm f\/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor<\/h2>\n<p>If you thought 180\u00b0 was a super-wide angle of view for a fisheye lens, think again. This one took in 220\u00b0 which meant \u2013 wait for it \u2013 the lens could look behind itself! This nine-element lens weighed in at 5kg, and had a front element diameter of 20cm. It was a retrofocus design, which meant that, unlike non-retrofocus lenses, the rear element did not foul the movement of an SLR\u2019s mirror. At f\/22, depth of field was 17cm to infinity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121420\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-50mm-f2-AF-Rikenon.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses 50mm f2 AF Rikenon\" width=\"654\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-50mm-f2-AF-Rikenon.jpg 654w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-50mm-f2-AF-Rikenon.jpg?resize=300,275 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-50mm-f2-AF-Rikenon.jpg?resize=436,400 436w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-50mm-f2-AF-Rikenon.jpg?resize=562,516 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/>\n<h2>1980: 50mm f\/2 AF Rikenon<\/h2>\n<p>Made by Ricoh in Japan, this was the first autofocus lens made to work with any manual-focus 35mm SLR that used the popular K mount. Using what the manufacturer called solid-state triangulation, it worked much like a traditional rangefinder, but with a sensor taking the place of the human eye. On to this sensor were projected twin images from two rangefinder-like windows. As the lens was activated, one mirror swung so that one image on the sensor moved in relation to the other. The sensor recognised when the two coincided as a point where maximum contrast was detected and information was passed to a motor that rotated the lens for correct focus.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_121421&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121421\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg\" alt=\"classic lenses Canon EF 1200mm USM telephoto\" width=\"1000\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg?resize=300,103 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg?resize=630,216 630w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg?resize=900,309 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/08\/classic-lenses-Canon-EF-1200mm-USM-telephoto.jpg?resize=562,193 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Picture courtesy of Canon UK<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>1993: Canon EF 1200mm f\/5.6L USM<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of its launch, Canon claimed this was the longest focal length lens available for any interchangeable-lens autofocus SLR. It weighed 16.5kg, measured 22.8&#215;83.6cm, had a maximum aperture of f\/5.6, an angle of view of just 2.05\u00b0 and a minimum focusing distance of 14m. The lens was almost entirely hand built, using two huge fluorite crystals which took a year to grow before being ground and polished. It was compatible with Canon\u2019s 2x Extender, which increased the focal length to an incredible 2,400mm and reduced the maximum aperture to f\/11. 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