Best lens name

[d.keljikian]

And who would ever put a "fisheye" on their camera?

 

[Canyongazer]

Carl Zeiss Jena "Flektogon"

 

[agentlossing]

Yes, let's not do a poll by company, because it's clear that Voigtländer would win.

In total agreement with this! Heheh. Definitely Heliar and Skopar are contenders.

I am also partial to Hexanon, from the Konica fold.

 

[pluton]

I favor the -agons and -ogons, because the the -gon part of it symbolizes that geometry is involved. Biogon, Distagon, Grandagon, Angulon are all fine, but Flektogon is the King of cool-sounding lens names.

 

[AAlfano]

I favor the -agons and -ogons, because the the -gon part of it symbolizes that geometry is involved. Biogon, Distagon, Grandagon, Angulon are all fine, but Flektogon is the King of cool-sounding lens names.

Yes, there is something about those names ending in "…gon…"

 

[hilltime]

I have a black "Domiron" and it comes with whip!

 

[Creagerj]

I've always liked "Xenotar".

 

[Pál_K]

Cannot believe Zoomar hasn't been mentioned before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomar_Lens

 

[markjwyatt]

...merely a long focal length lens and not a true tele lens, perhaps "longar" might be appropriate...

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There is a Longar- used on Retina rangefinders:

from ebay

 

[blan01]

Biogon, Sonnar, Xenotar

 

[markjwyatt]

A beastly lens is the Bausch & Lomb Animar;
A stuck up lens is the Meyer Aristostigmat;
A real gem is the Boyer Beryl;
Great lenses to wear around your neck include the Berner Collar and the Hermagis Lynx;
A lens of great price includes the Boyer Perle;
A really cool (even cold) lens is the Reichart Polar (you might say it is a bear of a lens);
A great lens for spotting aircraft is the Gundlach Radar;
A lens to take out on the town is the Roussel Stylor;
A lens for making really bloody TV horror shows is the Goerz Telegor;
A nice lens (extension tube actually) for filming children's specials in the UK is the Zeiss Tele-Tubus;
A combination photographic device and menu item from Taco Bell is the Wollensack Verito;
Pacific Coast lenses include the Isco Westanar and Westanor;

(based on lenses from Rudolf Kingslake, A History of Photographic Lenses)

 

[markjwyatt]

As far as the best, I kind of like "Sonnar". It just fits right (sun, light, etc.)

 

[xayraa33]

I am partial to the Golden Dagor

I mean the thing is golden...and that is hard to top.

 

[Greyscale]

K. Yamasaki Bio Congo.

 

[Rob-F]

I've always been partial to the Zeiss nomenclature.

Biogon, Distagon, Planar, Tessar, etc...

I like Biogon, Planar, and Tessar, myself. Also Summicron, Summaron, APO-Telyt. I don't really like the names Elmar or Distagon, although I do like the lenses. ASPH seems a strange thing to see on a lens; but again, I like the lenses.

 

[Out to Lunch]

I like the nickname for the Canon 1.2/85: 'the pineapple'.

 

[santino]

Helios isn‘t bad either (or Gelios, as the Russian write it).

 

[css9450]

I always liked the house-brand lenses sold at K-mart.... "Focal". Actually, everything they sold was Focal, but it was most applicable to their lenses.

 

[Dralowid]

No one mentioned the Hermagis Perlynx yet?

 

[rumbliegeos]

I always thought "Grandagon" promised a lot in terms of performance.