Your Favourite DEFUNCT Lens Maker/Marque? -- 35mm Still Camera (Film) only

[Sumarongi]

Let's go: What is Your Favourite DEFUNCT Lens Maker/Marque? -- 35mm Still Camera (Film) only, please.

(Poll will be added later).

 

[someonenameddavid]

Taylor,Taylor-Hobson

 

[Pentode]

Minolta MD/MC for me, please.

 

[nparsons13]

Yashica Yashinon DX and ML

 

[mbisc]

Contax (of the Yashica/Kyocera/Contax era with AE/MM mount)

 

[majid]

+1 for Contax.

 

[bayernfan]

does the original zeiss count? of the rolleiflex tessar / planar era.

 

[Timmyjoe]

Taylor-Hobson Cooke. Their Panchro lenses, though designed for motion pictures, were very nice still camera lenses as well.

Best,
-Tim

 

[xayraa33]

Tokyo Kogaku

Rokkor

Sankyo Koki

Tomioka

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Sankyo Kohki aka Komura.
Phil Forrest

 

[Doug]

Minolta for me, the CLE. These were excellent rigs.

 

[charjohncarter]

I wish you had included 120 lenses. Because I think 120 lens have lots more character than 135 lenses. By the time 135 lenses came along the formulas were more or less settled. Therefore character wasn't a consideration.

 

[Sumarongi]

I wish you had included 120 lenses. Because I think 120 lens have lots more character than 135 lenses. By the time 135 lenses came along the formulas were more or less settled. Therefore character wasn't a consideration.

Dear John,
thank you for your intriguing comment.
I agree that what we today call Medium Format was of course coining -- except just a few, the famous makers of 35mm photography lenses have a history of making medium format lenses (and/or microscopes, of course).
But actually, you've blindsided me -- I'm not aware of any notable lens maker that still existed when the 35mm still photography arose but wouldn't have offered lenses for the new format.
Could you add some examples, please?


2018 Mai 1st, 1600 CEST edit: Obviously, Zenza Bronica wasn't on my radar; I guess they've never made lenses for 135 film. -- OTOH, were the Medium Format *Zenzanon* lenses actually their very own product, or did they do it like Rollei with their *Rolleinar* lenses (which were in fact Carl Zeiss or Mamiya designs, plus a Rollei front bezel)?

 

[farlymac]

Schacht-Ulm.

PF

 

[valdas]

Contax/Yashica and then Konica AR

 

[citizen99]

Voigtlander (original of course, not Cosina-) as in Ultron, Heliar, Skopar ...

Runners-up:
I suppose Cooke (Taylor Hobson) as they are no longer in the 'domestic' photography market as far as I know.
Honourable mention for Agfa (Solinar ...)

 

[dee]

Original Contax
Minolta SR

 

[daveleo]

Minolta MC / MD (SR)

 

[css9450]

Konica M-Hexanon.

 

[leicapixie]

Ektar in 35, 120 and view camera.