Tessar

The Tessar is a photographic Objectif with four lenses of Carl Zeiss, appeared at the end of the XIXe century, very famous for piqué and the general quality of the images which it is able to provide.

Its name is probably inspired by the Ionian Greek word τέσσαρες (tessares), meaning " quatre" , in connection with its four lenses.

History

At the beginning of the XXe century, it was an expensive objective.

It equipped the majority with the apparatuses of Franke and Heidecke: Heidoscop, Rolleidoscop (1926), Rolleiflex (1929) and more modern.

After 1945, one as well finds it in manufacture with Iéna (Carl Zeiss Jena), in the East, where it is assembled, for example, on Certo Dollina or Belplasca (stereo apparatus), as in the West, where it equips the Contax, inter alia, like all the descent of Rolleiflex. The lenses are then treated surfaces some for photography colors.

Focal distances

There exists in various focal distances (examples of aircraft equipped with these focal distances):

3,5/37,5 mm: Belplasca (stereo double 24 X 30)

3,5/40 mm: Rollei 35 (24 X 36)

2,8/50 mm: Certo Dollina (24 X 36)

4,5/55 mm: Heidoscop/Rolleidoscop (stereo 45 X 107)

4,5/75 mm: Rolleiflex (6 X 6), Heidoscop/Rolleidoscop (stereo 6 X 13)

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