Category:Voigtländer

**Voigtländer**
	optical company
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Instance of	business; private label;
Industry	Manufacture of optical instruments and photographic equipment (derived from NACE classification in 20th Century Press Archives); Precision engineering and optical industry;
Location	Germany;
Owned by	Cosina;
Headquarters location	Brunswick;
Founded by	Johann Christoph Voigtländer;
Inception	1756;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	1982;
Followed by	Zeiss Ikon;
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Voigtländer is an optical company founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna in 1756 and is thus the oldest name in cameras. It produced the Petzval photographic lens (the fastest lens at that time: f/3.7) in 1840, and the world's first all-metal daguerrotype camera (Ganzmetallkamera) in 1841, also bringing out plate cameras shortly afterwards. It set up a branch office in Braunschweig in 1849, moving its headquarters there later. The company issued stock in 1898, and a majority of the shares were acquired by Schering in 1925.