Schneider

Schneider is a German optical company, that has made high quality lenses until today. They equipped many brands of cameras, German and other. Their lenses were often proposed as the second best choice, just behind Carl Zeiss, both firms were considered of equal quality, with Schneider a little less expensive.

Famous Schneider lens names include:

• the Xenar four element design, copy of the Carl Zeiss Tessar
• the Xenon six element design, for high aperture lenses
• the Radionar triplet lenses