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

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Subject: Re: Hektor 135mm /SM
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:05:37 -0400

Leitz manufactured almost 70,000 of these lenses in LTM or M mount between
1933 and 1960, more than half of this production being coated.  There is
thus a huge reservoir of these lenses out there, and this -- plus the slow
speed of the lens -- keeps the price down.  The same phenomena afflicts the
4/90 Elmar.

Still, the Hektor is a great performer.  

Marc

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