Schneider

Schneider-Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, widely referred to as Schneider.

The company is best known as manufacturer of large format lenses for view cameras, small and medium-format lenses, enlarger lenses, motion picture lenses. It also manufactured eyeglasses and camera rangefinders, as well as being an OEM lens maker for Kodak and Samsung digital cameras. It has supplied the lenses for various LG devices and the BlackBerry Priv. It also supplied the lenses for the Kodak Regent camera in the 1930s and other classic cameras such as certain models of the Rolleiflex starting in the 1940s, the Kodak Retina and Kodak Retinette camera series in the 1950s and 1960s, and certain specialty lenses for Hasselblad.

Kodak Retina IIIc

(type 028)

Jordan

14 Feb 2022

Kodak Retina IIIc wide angle 35mm f/4 Curtar-Xenon

Schneider Xenar 3,5/5cm M39

1946

Johanna

11 Nov 2021

Schneider Xenar 3.5/5cm Leica M39 1946 front rim detail view

Schneider Xenon 1,5/5cm M39

1948

Johanna

1 Nov 2021

Schneider Xenon 1.5/5cm 1948 in original rangefinder coupled Leica M39 front view

Gilde 66-17 MST Super 3D

Medium Multi–Format Panoramic Camera

Jordan

18 May 2021

Gilde 66-17 MST Super 3D Multi Format Panoramic Camera

Rolleiflex “Walker Evans”

1959–1970

Yoshi

24 Apr 2021

Walker Evans Rolleiflex outfit 1959–1970 all 3

Leitz Super–Angulon M 3.4/21mm

1964

Oscar

5 Nov 2020

Leitz Wetzlar Super Angulon 3.4/21mm wide-angle lens made by Schneider

Schneider Xenon 2/5cm M39

1946

Steve

14 May 2019

Schneider Xenon 2/5cm M39, 1946

Leitz Super-Angulon prototypes by Schneider

(1957-1977)

Oscar

8 May 2018

Schneider Super-Angulon 21mm Prototype wide-angle Lenses, 1957-1977

Rolleiflex 3,5 “Cutaway”

1949, Photokina

Tom

8 May 2018

Rolleiflex 3.5 “Cutaway” camera, Photokina, 1949