Rodenstock

Rodenstock is an old German optics house (founded 1877) and renowned among photographers for its manufacture of high quality optics for cameras, enlargers, and slide projectors. The precision optics part of the company was sold to Linos AG in 2000, while the main Rodenstock company concentrated their activities on spectacle frames and lenses. Linos became part of the Qioptic group in 2007 and will become an integral part of Qioptic starting 2010. They continue to produce high quality camera lenses, most notably for the Alpa 12WA and 12S/WA, and for view cameras, including specialized lenses for digital capture backs.

Old Rodenstock products: A Werol camera, a Monar lens, and a Citonette camera.(Image rights)

Some trademarks used for Rodenstock lenses

Ysar 1:3,9 f=10,5cm Lens image by Hans Kerensky (Image rights)

• Apo-Grandagon
• Apo-Ronar
• Eurygon
• Eurynar
• Heligon
• Monar
• Periskop
• Rodagon
• Sironar
• Splendar
• Trinar
• Yronar
• Ysar

See here for dating the serial numbers of Rodenstock lenses.

See also

The links go directly to the Rodenstock section:

• 39mm screw lenses
• 42mm screw lenses
• Exakta lenses

Rodenstock cameras

Clarovid II  (Image rights)

• Adina
• Astra
• Autoklapp
• Bafo
• Box
• Citoklapp
• Citonette (1932, with Trinar in Compur shutter)
• Clarovid , Clarovid II
• Daro III
• Gero
• Illma
• Imagon Spezialkamera I / II / III
• Lumofort
• Nahbildkamera, Nahbildkamera Stereo
• Planitta, Planitta II
• Prinzess
• Prontoklapp
• Robra
• Rodar II / III
• Rodella
• Rodinett
• Rofina I / II
• Rollfilm-Kamera
• Rulex
• Supreme
• Wedar I / II / V
• Werol (1933, with Eurynar in Compur shutter)
• Ysella
• Ysette

other cameras with a fixed Rodenstock lens

• Altiflex
• Certo Super Dollina II
• Certo Durata
• Kodak Retinette Ib

Early Serial number #11361 forum.mflenses.com