I feel like generally American manufacturers don\u2019t get their due credit when it comes to their inventions in the world of optics.<\/p>\n
The idea behind Ludwig Bertele\u2019s Sonnar was to reduce glare and loss of contrast while increasing transmission by incorporating fewer air-to-glass surfaces, although this was a concept that wasn\u2019t exactly invented by him. This idea in fact reached its peak four decades before his invention.<\/p>\n
Born in Pyritz, Pomerania in 1824, Ernst Gundlach spent his years working for several prestigious optomechanical companies in Europe before making the jump across the pond to the US in 1876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I feel like generally American manufacturers don\u2019t get their due credit when it comes to their inventions in the world of optics. The idea behind Ludwig Bertele\u2019s Sonnar was to reduce glare and loss of contrast while increasing transmission by incorporating fewer air-to-glass surfaces, although this was a concept that wasn\u2019t exactly invented by him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[54,53,56,57,55,20],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens-history","tag-american-optics","tag-ernst-gundlach","tag-ludwig-bertele","tag-rochester","tag-sonnar","tag-vintage-lenses"],"yoast_head":"\n