Schneider-Kreuznach: high accuracy optics and precision engineering

The Schneider Group specializes in developing and producing high-performance photographic lenses, cinema projection lenses, as well as industrial optics and precision mechanics. The group comprises Jos. Schneider Optische Werke, founded in Bad Kreuznach in 1913, and its subsidiaries Pentacon (Dresden), Schneider Kreuznach Isco Division (Göttingen), Schneider-Optics (New York, Los Angeles), Schneider Bando (Seoul), Schneider Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Schneider Optical Technologies (Shenzhen). The company’s main brand is “Schneider-Kreuznach”. It has around 640 employees worldwide, with 335 based in its German headquarters. For years now the group has been a world market leader in the area of high-performance lenses.

• Taking Lenses for all fields of application of professional analog and digital photography, from 35 mm to large format.
• Enlarging Lenses for demanding image processing chain.
• B+W-Photo Filters Color, B+W-Filters, Polarizer, ND Filters, IR Filters, Close-up Lenses, Soft focus, Trick Filters, B+W Software Filters.
• Photography Accessories like magnifiers, shutters, center filters and helical mounts which complete the extensive lens range.

• Cinema Projection Lenses for modern Multiplex Theater and Stadium Seating Cinemas, suitable for all cinema film formats, inclusive Cinemascope®-Film.
• Digital Projection Lenses for digital cinema, front projection and back projection as well as Rental & Staging.

• Industrial Lens enclose C-Mount lenses for CCD and CMOS cameras, modular Macro-systems for example Line-Scan camera applications, machine vision, sensor engineering and quality control as well as telecentric lenses.
• Industrial Filters Optical filters for example Machine Vision: UV/IR cut filters, color filters, ND-filters, polarizing filters, Interference filters, AR-Coatings.

Servo valves and digital control engineering for industrial applications like packaging machine, pneumatic bracket, compressor, autopilot, etc.

Please visit our new separate servo hydraulics website:

• Servo Valves Electro-hydraulic and electro-pneumatic servo valves with high-grade electronic control units for precise positioning-, speed-, power- and pressure controls in mechanical engineering.

Glass- and plastic lenses for eyeglasses; single- and multiple strength lenses, gradient lenses of high-refractive materials with special glass geometry for better appearance and greater wearing comfort.

• Ophthalmic Glasses

• Kodak: Kodak and Schneider-Kreuznach – two great companies are teaming up to give the most discerning camera photographers some really wonderful optical capabilities.
• Samsung: Schneider-Kreuznach has been cooperating closely with the Samsung technology group since 1995, thereby making Schneider professional lens systems accessible to hobby and amateur photographers.: NV camera series and GX digital SLR series.

We have a look over the shoulders of well-known photographers at work and experience how they realise their creative ideas with Schneider-Kreuznach lenses.

• On location with… shows professional photographs from different subjects like portrait, landscape, architecture, report, still life, …

• Measurement systems for production
  as well as quality ensurance for
  optical components and lens systems:
  
  Middle thickness measurement systems for
  lens diameters starting with 2-150 mm
  
  Centering error measurement for 5-100 mm
  
  MTF systems as customized products
  manufactured to specification up to 1000 LP/mm