Brief outline

•  Foundation: 1936
• Staff: 100

ISK Optics GmbH is a medium-sized company in the field of precision optics with a tradition of over 70 years in the development and production of projection lenses and optical systems of the highest quality level. Being one of the world’s leading companies in the sector of cinema projection lenses, we have always set standards due to our constant Research and Development. For that reason, Schneider-Kreuznach ISCO Division is the only company that has been honoured three times from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences with the Technical Achievement Award for cinema projection lens series in Hollywood. 

Core skills

Our area of expertise is anamorphic optics of high-quality and we belong to the few suppliers that are able to manufacture these systems in serial production in larger quantities.

Special Technology

Development and production of projection lenses for almost all applications, single elements and lenses for medical and industrial applications.

Development and production of anamorphic optics with a high imaging performance.
Anamorphic lenses consisting of cylindrical elements whose cylindrical axes are perpendicular to each other, consisting of elements with spherical and cylindrical surfaces and consisting of cylindrical elements whose surfaces
are perpendicular to each other.

Product summary

• Cinema Projection lenses for classical cinema and all film formats
• Cinema Projection lenses for Digital Cinema
• Video Projection lenses for E-Cinema,
  Home Cinema, business applications and other
• Custom-made industrial lenses
• High precision single elements (spherical + cylindrical)

Services

Development of lenses according to customer specifications. Surface roughness analyses on glass and quartz with an accuracy in the subnanometer range.

Training and further education

Professional education as an optician for precision optics

R&D operations

Our main focus is on the following fields: 

• Anamorphic and spherical lenses for all digital projection techniques

• Lenses for industrial and medical applications 

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