Glass Bodies a variant-level encyclopedia of vintage lenses and cameras by iwillpat

Glass · SLR

Single-lens reflexes for 35mm film, from the Nikon F to the last manual-focus bodies, and their lenses. 103 families across 5 systems.

Nikon F

The mount Nikon has never abandoned: a lens from 1959 will meter on a body from 2020, which no other maker can say.

Nikon

Nippon Kogaku

Alpa

Pignons made no lenses. Kern of Aarau, Angénieux, Schneider, Kinoptik, Old Delft and Kilfitt made them in the Alpa bayonet, in hundreds and low thousands, and the Kern Macro-Switar 50mm is the reason the bodies still sell.

Angénieux

Kern

Kinoptik

Old Delft

Schacht

Schneider-Kreuznach

Spectros

Fujica

Fujinon and EBC Fujinon lenses for the screw-thread ST bodies, the first SLR lenses sold with Fuji’s eleven-layer Electron Beam Coating, and the X-Fujinons of the 1979 bayonet, which fit nothing else.

Canon FD

Canon’s manual-focus lenses of 1971 to 1990: the chrome-nose breech-lock FDs, the S.S.C. black-nose lenses, the New FD bayonet, and the L series that put aspherical and fluorite glass in a 35mm lens — a mount Canon abandoned for EOS in 1987 and never brought back.

Olympus OM

Zuiko glass for the OM bayonet, from the 50mm f/1.8 that came on every body to the 21mm f/2, the 90mm f/2 macro and the 250mm f/2 — built small because the camera was.