Glass · Rangefinder

Interchangeable-lens rangefinders and the glass made for them, 35mm and XPan. 269 families across 7 systems.

Leica M

The bayonet Leitz introduced in 1954 and has never abandoned — a 1954 Summicron mounts on a camera made this year.

Carl Zeiss

  • Hologon 15mm f/8 — Leica M · 1972 · Hologon — a symmetrical thick-meniscus triplet · 1 variant

Cosina Voigtländer

Ernst Leitz

Ernst Leitz Canada

Leica

Light Lens Lab

Minolta

Schneider-Kreuznach

Leica screw mount

The 39mm thread Leitz standardised in 1931 and never patented — which is why lenses from Wetzlar, Tokyo, Yokohama and Kiev all fit the same body.

Canon

Cosina Voigtländer

Ernst Leitz

Fuji Photo Film

  • Fujinon 3.5cm f/2 — LTM · 1954 · Double Gauss with an added rear element, 7e/5g · 1 variant

Konishiroku

  • Hexanon 60mm f/1.2 — LTM · 1955 · Gauss-derived, 8e/6g (1955); 7e/6g (1999 reissue) · 2 variants

Light Lens Lab

Minolta

Zunow (Teikoku Kogaku)

Nikon rangefinder

Every family known to exist in the mount, including a few the reference books miss.

Carl Zeiss

Cosina Voigtländer

Fuji Photo Film

  • Fujinon 5cm f/1.2 — Nikon S + LTM + Contax RF · 1954 · Sonnar / double Gauss · 4 variants

Nippon Kogaku

Sankyo Koki

Soligor

Tanaka Kogaku

Zunow (Teikoku Kogaku)

  • Zunow 5cm f/1.1 — Nikon S + Contax RF + LTM · 1953 · Sonnar type · 6 variants

Contax rangefinder

Zeiss designs from Jena and Oberkochen, and the Soviet lenses built from them in Kyiv on machinery taken as reparations — the same formulas under two names.

Canon

Carl Zeiss

  • Biogon 21mm f/4.5 — Contax RF · 1954 · Biogon — symmetrical wide-angle · 1 variant
  • Tessar 2.8cm f/8 — Contax RF · 1932 · Tessar, four elements in three groups · 1 variant
  • Biogon 3.5cm f/2.8 — Contax RF · 1936 · Biogon — a symmetrical wide-angle, not a retrofocus · 2 variants
  • Biotar 4cm f/2 — Contax RF · 1932 · Biotar — a double Gauss, unlike the Sonnars around it · 2 variants
  • Sonnar 5cm f/1.5 — Contax RF · 1932 · Sonnar · 3 variants
  • Sonnar 5cm f/2 — Contax RF · 1932 · Sonnar, six elements in three groups · 3 variants
  • Tessar 5cm f/3.5 — Contax RF · 1932 · Tessar · 3 variants
  • Sonnar 8.5cm f/2 — Contax RF · 1932 · Sonnar · 3 variants
  • Triotar 8.5cm f/4 — Contax RF · 1932 · Cooke triplet · 2 variants
  • Sonnar 13.5cm f/4 — Contax RF · 1932 · Sonnar · 2 variants

Carl Zeiss Jena

KMZ

Contax G

Seven Carl Zeiss lenses for Kyocera’s autofocus rangefinder of 1994 — six built in Japan and a Hologon from Germany — including the first zoom ever made for a rangefinder camera.

Canon rangefinder

Canon’s own mounts: the Hansa bayonet of 1936 that Nippon Kogaku made for it, and the outer bayonet of the Canon 7 for the f/0.95 and the Mirror Box. Everything else Canon made for a rangefinder is a 39 mm screw lens and is filed under Leica screw mount.

Canon

Nippon Kogaku

Hasselblad XPan