Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/14

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Subject: Re: Hektor confusion
From: wilcox@umcc.umich.edu (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:50:39 -0500

Your lens was made in 1952. The Hector was changed to chrome finish in (I
think) 1950. It was surley changed be '52.

kw

>Item Subject: Message text
>In recently helping a student date some of her SM equipment, I came upon
>something in the Hove 6th edition that confuses me. The student has a
>Hektor 135mm f/4.5 SM, ser.no. 1073943. According to Hove, as I read it,
>her lens should be black except for the focusing scale, as Hove pictures
>it and describes it on p. 94. Howeber, her *screw mount* lens looks
>exactly like the picture of the mostly chrome bayonet version pictured
>and described on p. 95. Can anyone shed light? Thanks.
>
>Bill Barrett
>Webster University
>St. Louis
>barrettb@websteruniv.edu
>http://www.websteruniv.edu/~barrettb

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