The lenses except the Domiplan lost their trademark names when they became Pentacon lenses. The production of the lenses marked Domiplan, Oreston, Orestegon, Orestor, Orestegor, Lydith was continued when Meyer was incorporated into Pentacon. Scanned by Dirk HR Spennemann ( Image rights)Īristostigmat f7.7 and Meyer Megor camera 1 Some trademarks used for Meyer lenses.In 2018 OPC Optics, a maker of special lens elements based in Bad Kreuznach, bought the brand from the bankrupt net SE. Later the new technology company net SE announced the production of the new Meyer lenses in cooperation with original Meyer optics engineers from Görlitz.
In 2014 the brand management company Globell revived the brand on the Photokina. Orestegor 5.6/500 could be mounted on Exakta Varex, Exa II, Pentacon, Praktina, Praktica as well as Praktisix medium format SLR.Īfter German reunification the last original company's lenses were made until it's bankruptcy n 1991.
The first such a lens was Orestegor 4/200, which could be mounted on Exakta Varex, Exa II, Pentacon, Praktina and Praktica 35 mm cameras with applicable adapters. In mid 1960s Meyer introduced lenses with interchangeable adapters for different camera types. It became a part of VEB Pentacon and after some point, all the Meyer lenses were renamed Pentacon. Īfter WWII Meyer was the second East German lens supplier after Carl Zeiss Jena. In the 1920s he developed fast variants, the Kino-Plasmat f/2 and the World's fastest lens of its time, the Kino-Plasmat f/1.5. Paul Rudolph, the inventor of Zeiss' Tessar and Protar, developed Meyer's Double Plasmat which was derived from Meyer's symmetrical Euryplan lens. Meyer was a German optical company, founded by Hugo Meyer (born, died ) in Görlitz. Meyer lenses: Primagon, Domiplan, Lydith and Trioplan
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