- Voigtländer is an optical company founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna in 1756 and is thus the oldest name in cameras
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Voigtländer facts
- It produced the Petzval photographic lens (the fastest lens at that time: f/3
- 7) in 1840, and the world's first all-metal daguerrotype camera (Ganzmetallkamera) in 1841, also bringing out plate cameras shortly afterwards
- It set up a branch office in Braunschweig in 1849, moving its headquarters there later
- The company issued stock in 1898, and a majority of the shares were acquired by Schering in 1925
- Over the next three decades, Voigtländer became a technology leader and the first manufacturer to introduce several new kinds of product that later became commonplace
- These include the first zoom lens for 35mm still photography (36–82/2
- 8 Zoomar) in 1960 and the first 35mm compact camera with built-in electronic flash (Vitrona) in 1965
- Schering sold its share of the company to the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1956, and Zeiss and Voigtländer integrated in 1965
- In 1972 Zeiss/Voigtländer stopped producing cameras, and a year later Zeiss sold Voigtländer brand to Rollei
- On the collapse of Rollei in 1982, Plusfoto took over the name, selling it in 1997 to Ringfoto
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