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| The 2.5cm F4
This optically superb and extremely rare 4 element 4 group nearly perfectly symmetrical extremely curved optical formula was first marketed November 1953 about a year before the introduction of the S2. I... |
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From $2,750.00 to $2,940.30
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| 28mm (2.8cm) f3.5 Nikkor for Rangefinder
Introduced in September of 1952, this was only the second wide angle lens intended for the Nikon Rangefinder body series. (Though Braczko argues that it is actually the first s... |
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From $858.32 to $1,190.00
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| The 3.5cm (35mm) F2.5
This lens was first conceived of and earliest development prototypes were of an F2.7 and F2.8 lens. But, surprisingly the glass curvatures combined with the particular glass formulations availa... |
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From $488.84 to $1,595.00
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| Introduced September of 1956 only less than 8000 of these beauties were produced during its approximate 8 years of active production. There were only three varieties and only the initial 100 or so were produced in all bl... |
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From $1,688.88 to $1,749.00
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| The 5.0cm F1.4 Nikkor-S.C
Early on, Nippon Kogaku produced many optical and opti-mechanical achievements that are attributed to its early progress and eventual great success. The original 5cm F1.4 Nikkor-S proved to b... |
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From $289.76 to $2,600.00
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| The 5cm F2 Nikkor-H.C
One of NK's more vanilla offerings was its six element/four group 5cm F2.0. Other than being coated from its very beginning not much that is favorable distinguishes it from other similar offering... |
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From $150.00 to $564.48
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| 8.5cm f2.0 Nikkor P.C Rangefinder
The reader is referred to the 2007 edition of Rotoloni's "The Complete Nikon Rangefinder System" pages 288-305 for an accurate and scholarly treatment of the subject matter which is o... |
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From $539.00 to $592.48
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| Introduced December 1953 at $152.50, the 10.5cm f2.5 was one of NK's more historically important lenses. Approximately 9000 were produced starting with SN812000 and a second batch of approximately 13,000 onsetted with S... |
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$494.00
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| The 13.5cm f3.5 was one of the most massively successful and produced rangefinder lenses that was introduced very early (with the initial "M") in the rangefinder lineup and was produced right up to the end of that line i... |
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From $299.00 to $490.00
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| Nikon Rangefinder Lenses: The 3.5cm F3.5 W-Nikkor-C
First introduced for the original Zeiss Contax bodies and then the original Nikon I and among the original five lenses the 3.5cm F3.5 was arguably Nippon Kogaku's s... |
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From $700.00 to $7,250.00
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| The Rare Nippon Kogaku 8.5 cm F1.5 Nikkor-S.C for Contax and Nikon Rangefinder mounts
Historically this is one of Nippon Kogaku's most exotic and extremely interesting lenses. At the time that it was released in J... |
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$2,894.70
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| An original Schneider-Kreuznach design licensed by Leica/Leitz, 9/4 (nine elements in four groups) so no "air lenses" except for all the normal ones. |
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| This (6/6) lens formulation was introduced in 1955 to replace the very long in the tooth 2.8cm F6.3 Hektor. The lens formulation employed the then becoming common Japanese optical devices as advanced coatings and split e... |
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| A 5/3 formulation with the outer pairs cemented and the rearmost pair larger than the forward pair. The 2.8cm F6.3 Hektor was introduced in 1935 to counter the 28mm F8 Tessar which was already available from the other op... |
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| Triplet design with three cemented pairs. Circa 1931 - 1948 |
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| This was Leica's first extremely high speed normal lens. It is a classic double Gauss in formulation. Progress in the actual lens formulation was shared by Leica and Schneider. The main difference between the Xenon and t... |
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Leica's first high speed ultra fast medium telephoto. Came in chrome and black (in much lower numbers). Produced only in screw mount. Later serial numbers were supplied with "M" adapters. |
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| Introduced in 1930 with the pre-Standard Leica camera body, the 3.5cm (35mm) f3.5 is the very first interchangeable accessory Leitz/Leica lens that Berek designed for the Leica system, a system that over the next few dec... |
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| 35mm (3.5cm) f3.5/f2.8 SM System Mount Summaron
The 1948 SM 35mm(3.5cm) f3.5 Summaron (circa 1948-60 1st released in SM then in M in 1954) was Leitz/Leica's first post war designed lens and was intended to replace t... |
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| The 50mm/5cm f3.5 Elmar was Leica's most enduring lens. There is a very great deal of fine structure to the various evolutionary changes over the 3 1/2 decades that it was produced from 1925 when it replaced the Astigma... |
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| The 50mm f1.5 Summarit was introduced in 1949 as a coated post war replacement for the uncoated Schneider Xenon 50mm f1.5. Except for some minor optical design tweaking, it is substantially identical in design, it is a m... |
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| 5cm (actually 5.2cm)
Leica's earliest available light lens. Introduced in 1933 it was very advanced for its time. The Summar name is actually a recycling of specific nomenclature employed back in 1902 for a six elemen... |
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| 50mm (5cm) f2 Summitar
The 5cm Summitar was Leica's fast normal lens produced from 1939 through 1955 until the superior early Summicrons replaced it. It is an evolutionary set of optical improvements over the Summar t... |
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| Optical advancements such as the then new coating technology pioneered during the Second World War made possible the advantageous splitting of groups into individual elements without the consequent penalty of excessive i... |
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