Staeble factory
The Dr. Staeble & Co., limited liability company (Staeble-Werk, Staeble-Optik) was a traditional German manufacturer of lenses. The Staeble factory produced series lenses for recording, projection and magnification on behalf of national and international camera and equipment factories. A small number of projectors and cameras were also sold.
history
The Staeble factory was founded on May 5, 1908 in Munich . The share capital was initially 120,000 marks; Shareholders and first managing directors were A. Neumann, O. Jaeger and Franz Staeble . A 64-page catalog was published as early as 1914. In 1938 the business graduate Otto Friedl became a partner in the company, which was then renamed “Optisches Werk Dr. Staeble, Friedl & Co.KG ”operates.
The eponymous founder was Franz Staeble (1876–1950), who received his doctorate in 1901 at the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich, with a thesis on the investigation of surfaces whose lines of curvature become curved lines again when projected orthogonally onto another surface . The speaker was Carl Louis Lindemann , co- speaker Gustav A. Bauer . Staeble calculated u. a. the Rodenstock Imagon .
In the summer of 1944, the Staeble factory was relocated to Schongau in Bavaria by order of the Luftwaffe . The company initially found shelter in the premises of a cheese shop.
In 1953, the plant moved to the former military airfield in Altenstadt near Schongau, where a former aircraft repair hall was built. In 1954 Otto Friedl and his wife owned the company, Friedel managed the company until he sold it to Agfa-Gevaert AG with effect from November 1, 1969 at the age of 67 . The sales name Dr. Staeble & Friedl GmbH was initially retained. In 1992 it was renamed AGFA Optikzentrum Werk Altenstadt .
In 2003 production was relocated to Peiting . The property went to Lechmotoren GmbH, a Jenoptik company .
Products
Projection lenses and projectors
Standard projection lens Stellar
Specification 1: 2.8 / 85mm
They are optically Cooke triplets
The product range of projection lenses began in the wide-angle range with the Trigon 1: 2.5 / 40 mm. The wide-angle trine was also used in projectors they sold themselves. A very bright trine 1: 2.5 / 100 mm was used on a Braun Paximat . A Paxigon 1: 2.8 / 85 mm was also produced for Paximat models . Moderate-intensity projection lenses of this specification was for many years the post-war standard for the projection of small picture - Dias in Germany.
A popular series of projection lenses was the Stellar . In addition to the standard 85 mm f / 2.8 Stellar, a more powerful 85 f / 2.5 Super Stellar was also produced (e.g. used on a Braun Paximat -S electric ).
Projection objectives of the Staeble- Ultragon series were produced for enlargers (e.g. 1: 8/150 mm and 1: 8/210 mm).
Camera lenses
Staeble-Kata 1: 2.8 / 45 mm on Braun Super Paxette
Staeble Telexon from above
Staeble Telexon from the side
The anachromat 1: 6.3 / 150 mm is an early camera lens . A Dr. Staeble double anastigmat choroplast with the slightly longer focal length 1: 6.3 / 19.5 cm was made around a Compur shutter for a Braun Paxina. Radiplast was another double anastigmat from Staeble-Werke, here for a Braun Paxette II . There was also a Staeble-Choro 1: 3.5 / 38 mm and a Staeble-Choroplast 1: 4.5 / 38 mm for the Paxette .
In 1949–1953 the Kataplast 45 mm f / 2.8 was manufactured. This 35mm lens could be stopped down from 1: 2.8 to 1:16 and had a single coating. The close cooperation with the Nuremberg optics company Braun is also evident in the use of a less powerful cataplast 1: 3.5 / 75 mm on a Carl Braun Paxina II , a medium format camera . This was also a single-coated, manual lens.
A Staeble catagon 1: 2.8 / 50 mm is found on the further developed Braun Paxette II L. Identically specified lenses were also sold as brown katagon ; The Kata 1: 2.8 / 45 mm for the Paxette is similar . A more modern, more powerful design than the Katagon is the Staeble-Color Ultralit , which was also supplied as 1: 2.8 / 50 mm lenses for the Paxette II.
For an even shorter focal length, there was the Staeble Lineogon 1: 3.5 / 35 mm. The Lineogon was offered with lens mounts M39 and M42 , u. a. for the Super-Paxette II. The Staeble-Telon 1: 5.6 / 85 mm and the Staeble-Telexon 1: 3.8 / 135 mm were also used on a Paxette II .
An additional lenses with M39 connectors suitable for Leica - rangefinder cameras (made Trigon 1: 2.8 / 50 mm, tetragon 1: 2.8 / 50 mm, Telexon 1: 3.8 / 135 mm and 1: 5.6 / 90 mm).
The Ultraplast 1: 9/600 mm was on offer for large format photography .
Staeble line icon from above
Staeble line icon from the side
Cameras
The Staeble factory manufactured the Staeble Tricolor Camera in 1936 . It was a camera for 9 × 12 cm large format negatives. The double anastigmat Choroplast 1: 6.3 / 19.5 cm was used as a lens. The camera had a specially patented "color system".
Other products
Components for telescopic sights were also manufactured as well as lenses for enlargers (e.g. Magnogon R 1: 5.6 / 105 mm) for 6x6 and 6x4.5 cm medium format negatives . A Staeble- Katagon 1: 4.5 / 60 mm was produced as a magnifying lens.
literature
- Hartmut Thiele (2008) Staeble-Optik: The history of the optical factory, listing of the entire lens production from 1917 to 1972 . Lindemann's photo bookstore.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b zeit.de
- ^ Photographic correspondence. Photographic Society in Vienna, German Society for Photography. Volume 45 (1908), p. 284.
- ↑ Optical work Dr. Staeble & Co .: Photographic Lenses. Munich, edition 1914, 64 pages
- ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project , accessed June 18, 2011
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- ↑ Der Druckspiegel, Volume 24 (1969), Issues 9-12, p. 62
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- ↑ berlinhennig.de
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- ↑ cameracollector.proboards.com
- ↑ nelsonfoto.com ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ largeformatphotography.info
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