{"id":23467,"date":"2022-06-20T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23467"},"modified":"2022-06-20T00:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:48:15","slug":"a-heck-of-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-heck-of-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"a heck of a lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23468\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Hektor-5cm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23468\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Hektor-5cm-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1931-2 5cm f\/2.5 Hektor lens<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The<a href=\"https:\/\/vintage-camera-lenses.com\/leitz-hektor-50mm-f2-5-5cm-125\/\"> 5cm, f\/2.5 Hektor<\/a> was the first &#8216;fast&#8217; lens produced by Leitz for the Leica. The mount was much like its stable-mate. the 5cm, f\/3.5 Elmar. About 10,000 were made, most before 1938. Production records show the beginning year was 1931, but some sources say a few were made in late 1930. Leitz made some that were camera specific. Very early none standard Hectors were not rangefinder coupled either.<\/p>\n<p>Later in 1931 the so called Standard Leica was made with a standard distance from film to lens flange and from then on all lenses became interchangeable with all camera bodies. The lens mount and lenses were stamped with a tiny letter &#8216;O&#8217; to signify usability of standard lenses.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a 5cm Hektor for your collection, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/port-colborne-auction-june-25-26\/\">June 25 &amp; 26 auction<\/a> in Port Colborne has one with an authentic front lens cap and marked with the small &#8216;O&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The 5cm, f\/2.5 Hektor was the first &#8216;fast&#8217; lens produced by Leitz for the Leica. The mount was much like its stable-mate. the 5cm, f\/3.5 Elmar. About 10,000 were made, most before 1938. Production records show the beginning year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-heck-of-a-lens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[399,922,61,63,401,3020],"class_list":["post-23467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-auction","tag-hektor","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-lens","tag-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23474,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}