14 Facts About Walter Mandler

Walter Mandler was a lens designer of Ernst Leitz Canada in Midland, Ontario.

Walter Mandler was one of the team members "on loan" for a short period of time.

However, Walter Mandler stayed in Canada for more than half a century and became a Canadian citizen.

Walter Mandler employed sophisticated combinations of special glasses in his apochromatic and high-speed designs, and many of these glasses were original Leitz formulas manufactured by Schott or Corning.

Walter Mandler was a master in optimizing Double-Gauss designs by means of the computer, and a particular method developed by him and explained in his doctoral dissertation.

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Walter Mandler became vice president of ELCAN from 1974, being an optical advisor for Leica until his retirement in 1985.

Walter Mandler is credited with the design of more than 45 high performance Leica lenses for the Leica rangefinder cameras and Leica SLR cameras, including many landmark designs:.

Complete list of Leica M and R lenses designed by Walter Mandler as selected by Walter Mandler himself not in chronological order :.

Walter Mandler designed lenses for IMAX movie projection systems, high-aperture lenses for Picker X-ray applications, lenses for RCA Victor television cameras, extrahigh resolution lenses for intelligence-gathering, scopes for the Canadian, US and NATO armed forces, lenses for HP scanners, etc.

Dr Walter Mandler was clearly ahead of his times with his developments.

Walter Mandler's designs are very competent, but he had to work within the restrictions of the Leitz philosophy of lens manufacture.

Walter Mandler clearly saw that without fundamental changes Leica could not compete in the long run.

Walter Mandler's achievement was the transfer of that theoretical framework to practical design.

Walter Mandler did not develop really innovative designs, but his strong point was the exploration of existing limits and to find ways to implement the almost impossible.