Meyer

Meyer lenses: Primagon, Domiplan, Lydith and Trioplan

Plasmat

Meyer was a German optical company, founded by Hugo Meyer (born 21.05.1863, died 01.03.1905) in Görlitz.

In 1918 Dr. Paul Rudolph, the inventor of Zeiss' Tessar and Protar, developed Meyer's Double Plasmat which was derived from Meyer's symmetrical Euryplan lens. 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 .

After WWII Meyer was the second East German lens supplier after Carl Zeiss Jena. It became a part of VEB Pentacon and after some point, all the Meyer lenses were renamed Pentacon.

In mid 1960s Meyer introduced lenses with interchangeable adapters for different camera types. 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. Orestegor 5.6/500 could be mounted on Exakta Varex, Exa II, Pentacon, Praktina, Praktica as well as Praktisix medium format SLR.

Some trademarks used for Meyer lenses

Aristostigmat f7.7 and Meyer Megor camera with Trioplan 1:4.5 F=5cm

• Aristoplan
• Aristogmat
• Aristostigmat
• Diaplan (projection lens)
• Double Plasmat
• Domiplan
• Doppelanastigmat
• Doppelplasmat / Double-Plasmat
• Epidon
• Euryplan
• Euryplan-Satz

Double Plasmat 1932 Advertisement

• Helioplan
• Kinon Superior (projection lens)
• Kino-Plasmat and Kinoplasmat
• Lydith
• Makroplasmat
• Megon
• Omin (projection lens)
• Orestegon
• Orestegor
• Oreston
• Orestor

Orestor

• Plasmat
• Plasmat-Satz
• Porträt Trioplan
• Primagon
• Primoplan

Porträt Trioplan 1932 Advertisement

• Primotar
• Repro-Plasmat
• Satz Plasmat and Satzplasmat
• Telefogar
• Tele-Megor and Telemegor
• Trioplan
• Veraplan

Cameras

• Megor

See also

Exakta SLR with Telemegor (img. John Kratz)

The links go directly to the Meyer section:

• 39mm screw lenses
• 42mm screw lenses
• Contax rangefinder lenses
• Exakta lenses
• Praktina lenses

Cameras with a fixed Meyer lens

• Baldi
• Balda Baldaxette
• Balda Beltica
• Balda Super Baldina (folding)
• Balda Super Pontura
• Beirette
• Certo Dollina I
• Certo Dolly
• Certo Super Dollina
• Certo Durata II
• Meyer Megor (Korelle 3x4 variant sold by Meyer)
• Penti
• Pentona
• Welta Welti 1

Sources

• Fincke H.E.: Das Objektiv deiner Kamera; Fotokinoverlag Halle, Halle, 1959.
• Naumann H.: Das Auge meiner Kamera; Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, Halle (Saale), 1951.
• Puskov V.V.: Poradnik fotograficzny; PWT, Warsaw, 1956.

Links

• A web page about Meyer
• Page with Hugo Meyer prewar catalogues at Camera Eccentric
• Meyer Gallery at www.mflenses.com
• Hugo Meyer cine lenses company history and list of cine lenses
• [Hugo Meyer] in Stadtwiki Görlitz