Staeble

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The Staeble Lens Factory in Schongau/Lech in 1958 (Image rights)
Camera industry in Munich
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Staeble was a German company, co-founded in 1908[1] by the German scientist, physicist (optics) and mathematician Dr. Franz Staeble (*1876 †1950).[2] The company primarily made lenses for cameras, projectors and enlargers,[3] but during World War II also manufactured military optics such as gunsights. Some of the Staeble lens designs were apparently acquired by Rodenstock in 1930.[4] The Staeble production facility was based initially in Munich but by 1944 was moved to Altenstadt near Schongau am Lech (Bavaria).[5] By 1958 the Staeble-Werk was acquired by the salesman Otto Friedl and his wife, and was named Dr. Staeble, Friedl & Co. KG.[6] It was bought out by Agfa in 1969.[7]

Cameras

  • Unoplast 10x15 (~1925)
    • with Doppel-Anastigmat f/ 5.4 120 mm in Compound shutter (~1910s)[8]
    • with Doppel-Anastigmat f/ 6.3 165 mm in Compur shutter (~1920s)[9]

Lenses fitted in cameras

Staeble was an OEM who supplied lenses to a range of German manufacturers, such as Braun, Finetta, Kalos, King, Neidig, Potthof, Saraber, Wirgin, Genos, Ising, Kürbi & Niggeloh, Linden, Mozar, Pohlack und Seidel.[10] Lenses sold under its own brand name were:

Aeroplast

  • F/6.8 used on the 'Atlanta' balloon camera made by Contessa ca. 1911ref name="Vademecum" />

Choroplast

  • Series I f/3.9 available as 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 36 and 48cm[11]
  • Series II f/4.5 available as 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 36 and 48cm[11]
  • Series III f/6.3 available as 7.5, 10.5, 12, 13.5. 16.5, 19.5, 24, 27.5, 32 and 36cm[11]
  • Series IV f/6.3 available as 7.5, 10.5, 12, 13.5. 16.5, 19.5, 24, 27.5, 32 and 38cm[11]
  • Series IV f/6.8 available as 7.5, 10.5, 12, 13.5. 16.5, 19.5, 24, and 27.5cm[11]

Citonar

supplied to Contessa-Nettel[12]

Citoplast

supplied to Contessa-Nettel[12]

Color-Ultralit (Braun Color-Ultralit)

Extra-Rapid Aplanat

  • f/7.7 avaiable as 10.5, 13.5 16.5 and 19.5cm[11]

Hellaplast

Isoplast

Kata

Katagon

Kataplast

Kuhn's Anachromat (1928)

the original Imagon[17]

Lineogon

Lineoplast

  • f/11.5 25cm barrel lens[18]
  • f/12.5 available as 6, 9, 13, 15.5, 18, 22, 25.5, 32, 44 and 55cm[11]

Medioplast

Monoplast

  • f/7.7 available as 7.5, 11.5, 14.5, 19.5, 22, 30, 42, and 54cm[11]

Neoplast

Polyplast

Polyplast multi-lens lens set of 1912 with custom mount.[19]

Protoplast

  • f/6.8 available as 9, 12, 13.5, 16.5, 19.5, 24, 27.5, 30 and 36cm[11]

Super-Choro

Super-Ultralit (Braun Super-Ultralit)

Tachyplast

  • f/3.2 available as 15, 18.5, 26, 36 and 48cm[11]

Telon

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Staeble-Telexon f/5.6 85mm
image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

Telexon

Teronar

supplied to Contessa-Nettel[12]

Tessaplast

supplied to Contessa-Nettel[12]

Ultralit

see also Color-Ultralit and Super-Ultralit

Ultraplast

Unoplast

an Anastigmat

Projector lenses

Halogon

Katagon

  • f/2.8 85mm
    • in Noris 500 slide projector[13]
    • in Revue 24JL slide projector[13]

Paxigon

  • f/2.8 85mm
    • in Braun Paximat 200
    • in Braun Paximat 1800 electric slide projector
    • in Braun Paximat Triumph N24
    • in Braun Paximat N 12auto slide projector[13]

Proj.-Kata

Proj.-Katagon

Proj.Trigon

Stellagon

Stellar

  • f/2.8 85mm

Super-Stellagon

  • f/2.8 85mm
    • in Braun Paximat deLuxe N24+J

Suprar

  • f/2.8 85mm

Trigon

Enlarger lenses

Katagon

Telexon – E

  • with a f/5.6 85mm lens witm M39 mount.[13]

Ultragon

Other Optics

Gun Sights

  • Staeble Diana Uniscope 2.2 x 15
    • for Diana Air Rifle[22]

Bibliography

Catalogues

  • Optisches Werk Dr. Staeble & Co. G.M.b.H Muenchen. [1912]
  • Optisches Werk Dr. Staeble & Co.: Photographische Objektive. München. Edition 1914, 64 pp.

Other

Thiele, Hartmut (2008) Staeble-Optik. Die Geschichte des Optischen Werkes, Aufstellung der gesamten Objektivfertigung von 1917 bis 1972. München: Lindemanns Fotobuchhandlung.

Links

Notes

  1. ↑ Founded on 5 May 1908 together with Ing[engieur] Alfred Neumann und Dipl[om]-Ing[engieur] Oskar Jaeger (listed as 'business manager') with a capitalisation of 120,000 Reichsmark (Photographische Korrespondenz. Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie vol. 45, 1908, p. 284.— Der Mechaniker vol. 16, 1909, p. 117).
  2. ↑ For a brief biography and a list of his publications, see the Wikipedia entry.
  3. ↑ It was also known as Staeble-Werk or Dr. Staeble.
  4. ↑ A History of the Imagon lens by Dr. Alfons Schultz
  5. ↑ To escape the threat of Allied bombing raids on the city.
  6. ↑ See German trademark issued on 24 Dec 1958: Wort-Bildmarke von Optisches Werk Dr. Staeble, Friedl & Co (DE732266). extended (by Agfa 24 December 1988, cancelled 17 October 2000.
  7. ↑ Der Druckspiegel, vol 24 (1969), Issue 9-12, p. 62.—On 13 June 1988 Agfa applied for the trademark STAEBLE Wortmarke von Agfa-Gevaert AG (DE1126417); trademark extinguished 1 July 2008.
  8. ↑ Norway Photomuseum
  9. ↑ Photographica Collection Dirk HR Spennemann
  10. ↑ Thiele, Hartmut (2008) Staeble-Optik. Die Geschichte des Optischen Werkes, Aufstellung der gesamten Objektivfertigung von 1917 bis 1972. München: Lindemanns Fotobuchhandlung.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 Optisches Werk Dr. Staeble & Co. G.M.b.H Muenchen. 1912 Catalogue extracts at www.cameraeccentric.com
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Wilkinson, M. and Glanfield, C. A lens collector's vade mecum. Version 07/05/2001. Distributed as a CD or PDF file
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 13.25 13.26 13.27 13.28 13.29 13.30 13.31 Seen in an eBay auction December 2012,
  14. ↑ Christies Lot 409 / Sale 4881.
  15. ↑ Breker September 2006 Lot 948
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Perlux in Classic Cameras.
  17. ↑ Staeble, Franz (1928) Anachromat Kühn«, Photographische Rundschau und Mitteilungen vol. 65, pp. 189-190.—A History of the Imagon lens by Dr. Alfons Schultz.— Young, William Russell (2008) The soft-focus lens and Anglo-American pictorialism. Thesis. University of St Andrews.
  18. ↑ Westlicht 21/Lot 561
  19. ↑ Some commentators were very critical: "Occasionally, for some reason, a designer will try the effect of combining two dissimilar cemented components about a central stop. It is hard to see the virtue of such an arrangement,except perhaps as an economy measure." (Kingslake, Rudolf [1989] A history of the photographic lens. London: Academic Press, p. 102)
  20. ↑ via flickr
  21. ↑ Diaprojektor "Paximat" in Industrie- und Filmmuseum Wolfen
  22. ↑ Various on-line auctions for guns
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