Camera industry in Berlin

Agfa | Amigo | Astro Berlin | Bermpohl | B W | Foth | Goerz | Grass & Worff | Plasmat | Rudolph | Rüdersdorf | Schulze & Billerbeck

Astro Berlin was a German optical company from 1921 to 1991. It was located in Berlin, in what became the Eastern part after the war. It made cine and still camera lenses as well, some with impressive specifications.

Cameras equipped with Astro lenses:

• Minifex

See also their 39mm screw lenses.

List on lenses mounted on the Identoskop reflex housing (from 1938 ad):

• 125/3.5
• 135/3.5
• 150/2.3 (main combination)
• 200/2.3
• 250/2.3
• 400/5
• 500/5
• 600/5
• 640/5
• 800/5

Links Edit

• Exaklaus maintains an astonishing Astro Berlin page
• The Gauss Tachar 75/2 and Pan Tachar 125/2.3 in coupled Leica screw mount at cameraquest