With the help of its own technological know-how and synergies in the field of lens manufacturing, existing products are now optimized, production processes professionalized and further products developed. With the acquisition of Meyer-Optik, the specialist for aspherical and spherical glass lenses opened up the consumer market for itself.
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Until then, the well-known lens series Trioplan, Primoplan, Lydith and others have been published.Īt the end of 2018, OPC Optics, based in Bad Kreuznach, acquired the trademark rights to Meyer-Optik and its lens designs. After a thoroughly successful start and a positive development, the brand fell victim to the insolvency of net SE in 2018, which has been basically a pure sales & marketing company with various brands and subsidiaries. Under the management of net SE, based in Koblenz, the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz brand entered the market again in 2014. This resurgence was unfortunately only of short duration, since the company could not become competitive at short notice and has been already shut down again by the Treuhand in 1991. Lenses with the imprint Meyer-Optik were produced again. In addition, many machines necessary for the production of high-quality zoom lenses could not be procured from other socialist states or from Western countries until 1989.Īfter reunification, Meyer-Optik was separated from the Carl Zeiss Jena combine and relaunched as "Feinoptisches Werk Görlitz GmbH". As a result of this centralisation, Meyer-Optik increasingly lost technical competence and some products were discontinued in favour of competing models from Carl Zeiss Jena. In the mid-1980s, the combine VEB Carl Zeiss Jena took over the VEB Pentacon and thus also Meyer-Optik. Among other things, for an aperture-fast setting for photographic lenses, a 5-lens telephoto lens and a corrected lens consisting of four plastic lenses.īy the integration of the Meyer-Optik into the combine VEB Pentacon, the imprint Meyer optics on the lenses disappeared after 1971. Many lenses from Meyer-Optik have regularly been awarded with the highest quality rating for DDR products.įurther patents were applied for in the following years. At this time, mainly the well-known Trioplan triplets, the powerful Primoplan lenses and the Telemegor long focal lengths were produced. From 1952, the anti-reflection coating with magnesium fluoride was introduced. In the post-war period Meyer-Optik produced the Helioplan under the name "VEB Feinoptisches Werk Görlitz" (as successor of the Doppel-Anastigmat). Post-war period until the reunification of Germany Compared to Carl Zeiss Jena, who was a market leader at the time, the lenses were usually offered at a slightly lower price. In the 1930s Meyer-Optik already had a wide range of high-quality interchangeable lenses. Another important step was the delivery of OEM-lenses for camera manufacturers - such as the Exakta from Ihagee. Rudolph, the famous Plasmat lenses were developed and the Kino-Plasmat was the world's fastest lens at the time. Paul Rudolph, who had previously been involved in some of Carl Zeiss Jena's most important lens developments (Protar, Planar, Tessar), should be emphasized here. The company expanded further by taking over the "Optische Anstalt Schulze und Billerbeck" - manufacturer of the then well-known Euryplan lenses.īetween 19, important foundations for further growth were laid. Successful developments such as the Aristostigmat, a 6-lens Anastigmat, the wide-angle-Aristostigmat and the first projection lenses quickly increased Meyer-Optik's name recognition. In the first 20 years, Meyer-Optik quickly become known as a lens manufacturer. In 1896 the optician Hugo Meyer, together with the merchant Heinrich Schätze, founded the "Optisch-Mechanische Industrie-Anstalt Hugo Meyer & Co." in Görlitz.
Nevertheless, the approach is identical today as it was then - to manufacture high-quality, innovative and yet affordable lenses in Germany. In the long history, various external circumstances have shaped the path of the lens manufacturers from Görlitz and have usually not made it easier. The unique visual language offered by Meyer-Optik lenses enables photographers to stand out from the crowd in times of smartphone photos and pixel battles by large manufacturers. In the now more than 120 years of company history Meyer-Optik was able to inspire many photographers for its products and to win a worldwide large fan community. Founded in 1896, the Görlitz-based company was able to offer innovative, high-quality lenses at a very early stage and to continue this tradition even in a divided Germany for many years. Meyer-Optik looks back on an eventful history.
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