Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/18

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Subject: Re: Hektor 135mm /SM
From: "Glenn Wm. Thrall" <gthrall@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:00:15 -0700

uh3b207@hpmail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote:

> Until then I have seen another Hektor with a similar price. Why
> it is so cheap compared with other lenses? Is there indeed
> some flaw in the design that I have not noticed up to now?
> Or it is just a market phenomenon (no one wants to buy it;
> there are so many of them)? What do you think?
> 
> Regards, Rainer Mueller
> Munich, Germany


I use two 135 lenses, the Hektor in M mount and the 2.8 with "eyes."

Both are excellent. I have been told the Hektor is "slow" ... and that 
seems to be the general "wisdom." Perhaps it is slow at F4.5, however the 
images appear to be as sharp and contrasty as the F2.8 version. In 
addition, it is much lighter!

Glenn