Opcon Design Associates LLC

Research ServicesUnited States2-10 Employees

OPCON Design Associates (OPCON) offers optical design and optical engineering services using a broadexperience in the design of mass produced optics.
Founded in 1969 as OPCON Associates, Inc., OPCON is an independent consulting company specializing in optical design. OPCON has developed its own proprietary software which is uniquely tailored to areas in which the company is best known, particularly the design of zoom lenses and the utilization of aspherical optical surfaces. OPCON has always been especially interested in the design of mass produced optics for consumer applications and takes pride in the number of resulting products that have successfully gone to market, often in very high volumes. OPCON designs as well as designs based on ideas pioneered at OPCON can be found in a variety of currently available products such as zoom lenses for 35mm photography, lenses for projection television; zoom lenses for the motion picture industry; imaging systems for industrial video, medical and space optics; as well as optics used in surveillance, copiers and numerous other consumer and industrial applications. Some examples are: 

•Series I optics for consumer photographic applications
•NASA Skylab zoom telescope
•CN Tower 20:1 zoom telescope
•US Navy 4.5"X4.5X format reconnaissance zoom lens
•US Navy underwater zoom lens
•10X catadioptric zoom lens
•Anamorphotic zoom lens
•Microfiche zoom lenses
•Panavision Primo cine zoom lenses

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