Mandler Heaven: pictures of, and by, lenses designed by Walter Mandler

Beautiful eulogy with a box insert listing of his lens designs.

raydm6 said:

Beautiful eulogy with a box insert listing of his lens designs.

http://www.phsc.ca/phsc_e-mail/Vol-5/PHSC-E-Mail-V5-2-Dr-Mandler.pdf

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Oh that’s too funny. I was 7 or 8 when I met Dr Mandler. He asked me a simple maths question too. I answered it immediately (I was very good at mental maths then). He asked me another one. This went on. Eventually my father got tired of the “Marty as a biological calculator” game and took Dr Mandler to where the grown-ups were talking.

Freakscene said:

Oh that’s too funny. I was 7 or 8 when I met Dr Mandler. He asked me a simple maths question too. I answered it immediately (I was very good at mental maths then). He asked me another one. This went on. Eventually my father got tired of the “Marty as a biological calculator” game and took Dr Mandler to where the grown-ups were talking.

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So he did this with many kids! 😂 He would have thought me a dunce, I couldn't do mental arithmetic as a kid for nuts. Your father seems well connected in the optical industry, host to Dr. Mandler, knowledgeable about Zeiss and Contax designs.

Archiver said:

So he did this with many kids! 😂 He would have thought me a dunce, I couldn't do mental arithmetic as a kid for nuts. Your father seems well connected in the optical industry, host to Dr. Mandler, knowledgeable about Zeiss and Contax designs.

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My father was an optical engineer, and was an expert initially on coatings, although more precisely on processes and mechanisms for applying coatings. He then developed expertise in qa/qc for optical production assembly. He did a lot of work for Zeiss and Leica. He was good friends with Günter Leitz, which is how, I expect, he met Walter Mandler. He worked in a university optical lab for over 30 years. He had a strong dislike for anything electronic, but while he could still see well and retained fine dexterity, he could fix anything mechanical. I have several Rolleiflexes he rebuilt from ruined cameras he was given, and he gave me part of his collection of other cameras.

Leica Summicron 50mm f2.0 v. III:

Surfers by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Summer in the City by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Hurry by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Tele Elmarit 90mm F2.8 Thin/ M9.

M6 TTL, 90/2.8 Thin, Tri-X. The first tele I've ever owned that actually works wide open.