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Deeply-curved doublets bracketing the iris are a double-Gauss hallmark. Improved double-Gauss designs introduce some mild asymmetry image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
The cornerstone of "normal" lens designs in the f/1.7-f/2.0 class, the double Gauss formula originates with the Zeiss Planar of 1896. The classical version has six elements in a 1-2-2-1 configuration, symmetrical around the aperture stop.
Photographers may simply refer to a "Gauss" design lens. Strictly this is not correct, as Carl Friedrich Gauss had originally described a telescopic objective pairing a positive and a negative element. Using two Gaussian lenses back-to-back was the vital innovation for photography.
Countless derivatives of this formula have been manufactured with variations including air-spacing rather than cementing the inner doublets; splitting the outer elements into two, and so on. Lenses in the f/1.0–f/1.4 class are frequently these modified double-Gauss designs.
This 7-element derivative achieves f/1.4 (Olympus OM system Zuiko 50mm) image by Voxphoto (Image rights) |