page_title: Schneider Kreuznach
section_title: Macro-Symmar HM
hierarchical_section_title: Schneider Kreuznach / Copy and macro lenses / Macro-Symmar HM
caption_attribution_description: English: Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 85mm lens
context_page_description: Schneider-Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics. The company was founded on 18 January 1913 by Joseph Schneider as Optische Anstalt Jos. Schneider & Co. at Bad Kreuznach in Germany. The company changed its name to Jos. Schneider & Co., Optische Werke, Kreuznach in 1922, and to the current Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH in 1998.
  In 2001, Schneider received an Oscar for Technical Achievement for their Super-Cinelux motion picture lenses. It is best known as manufacturers of large format lenses for view cameras, enlarger lenses, and photographic loupes. It also makes a limited amount of small- and medium-format lenses, and has at various times manufactured eyeglasses and camera rangefinders, as well as being an OEM lens maker for Kodak and Samsung digital cameras. It has supplied the lenses for various LG devices and the BlackBerry Priv.
context_section_description: The Macro-Symmar HM is a variation of the Symmar design, engineered for 1:1 macro work and flat-field copying.  The 80 mm is a 6-element, 4-group lens with a 47° angle of coverage, while the other lenses in the line are 8-element, 4-group designs with 55° of coverage.  The HM in the name indicates that these lenses use high-modulation glass elements.
  85 f/2.4 HM (for 24×36 mm) for Canon EF and Nikon F mount (2014)
  80mm f/5.6 (for 6×9 cm)
  90 f/4.5 HM for Canon EF and Nikon F mount (2014)
  120mm f/5.6 (for 5×7 in)
  180mm f/5.6 (for 8×10 in)
caption: Schneider-Kreuznach MACRO-SYMMAR 2.4/85
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