Schneider

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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.

Schneider lens names

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

See also

The links go directly to the Schneider section:

Cameras with a fixed Schneider lens