carl zeiss jena binoculars serial numbers

Or, if you have any information on large format lens serial numbers, for the manufactures list above, or any other, kindly forward them to me, and I will attempt to incorporate them. If you find something which you find of questionable validity, please do not hesitate to contact me. This page is a modest attempt to provide one form of information, serial number-year correspondences.Ĭaveat: While I would like to make this collection as accurate as possible, I cannot make any claims as to the accuracy of any of the information. In any case, none of these companies provides any sort of information regarding the lenses they once made. Taylor, Taylor & Hobson is also gone, although its one time subsidiary, Cooke, has recently returned to the fold, and is now making a 4x5 portrait lens. Goerz, and Ross are long gone, and Voigtländer exists only in name. Zeiss no longer makes large format lenses, and consequently has little interest or incentive to provide this information. However, serial numbers are, to my knowledge, entirely lacking.

There are a few web-pages, both official and unofficial, for other three manufacturers, Congo, Nikon, (Unofficial and Official) and Fuji,(also here). However Rodenstock serial numbers, the other major European manufacturer, have been posted by Kerry Thalman. Of the contemporary makers, only Schneider has made a great effort to provide information, the other lens makers have been less forthcoming. There is a real absence of information on large format lenses. Other sources of information include web-pages and anonymous information passed down to me through others. For the most part, the information has been culled from Wilkinson, Glanfield and Wrights' magisterial Lens Collector's Vade Mecum, a data base available on CD-rom. The following is a collection of serial numbers for large format lens manufacturers. Serial Number Carl Zeiss Binoculars For Sale.These binoculars, with their very high serial number, are probably some of the very last Zeiss glasses ever to bear the world-famous doublet lens Carl Zeiss Jena Kuithan logo introduced in 1904. Zeiss Scope Identification Serial Number Carl Zeiss Jena Deltrintem 8 x 30 binoculars serial number 7300856.

Carl zeiss jena binoculars serial numbers