I have a lot of older equipment which allow the use of prime lenses. Many of these have commercial names. For example, my Kodak Medalist I rangefinder camera from the 1940's has a f3.5 100mm Ektar lens. From what I can gather, this lens is a Tessar design. I just got a Zeiss Planar taken from a Graphlex XLRF. Apparently this design goes back to the early decades of this century.(posted 8730 days ago)My question is this: Does anyone know of a reference which explains these designs. I have "A User's Guide to the View Camera by Jim Stone. This books does delve into the subject of lens design and history, but I would like to go a tad further.
Any help will be appreciated.
Bruce Karnopp