Some Rapid Rectilinears bore already this reputation but it was quickly transferred to the anastigmats. With the anastigmats it was definitely created the category of general purpose high quality lenses. The design was licensed to many other lens makers. The name Dagor was adopted only in 1904 as a short for Goerz Doppel Anastigmat. By 1895 some 30.000 had been already sold. That was the beginning of a huge success. Only four years old, Goerz was producing a Rapid Rectilinear lens called Lynkeioskop, one of the best RR versions. So Emil took it to the also very young firm Goerz in Berlin. Zeiss was not interested, maybe because two years earlier they had launched their own anastigmats. It was in 1892 that a mathematician Emil von Hoegh, 27 years old, proposed to Zeiss this double anastigmat consisting of two triplets symmetrically arranged around the diaphragm. More than one hundred years after its introduction the Dagor is still a very usable lens. This is one of the most accomplished lens design ever.
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