The following still camera Ektars were documented in the Kodak Data Book: Lenses Shutters and Portra Lenses, Fourth Edition, 1952. Lenses for professional equipment, previously included in the Kodak Reference Manual and the 3rd edition of this Data Book were moved to the Kodak Professional Handbook: Equipment section on its first publication in 1952.
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his logo is a link to a lens test by Chris Perez.

   
DESC
LENS

CAMERA/SHUTTER/
MOUNT

LENS TYPE
NOTES
  f/3.5 44mm Signet 35
Synchro 300
Tessar 28.5mm slipon or No.22 screwin adapter ring, Ser V.
Magnesium fluoride coated-
'Lumenized'
f/3.7 105mm Flash Supermatic Heliar

38mm slipon adapter ring, Ser VI.
Magnesium fluoride coated-
'Lumenized'

There was also, apparently, an f/3.7 107mm Ektar that was reportedly a Tessar design. This lens is not included in my © 1942,1945 edition. §


f/4.5 101mm

Flash Supermatic
Synchro-Rapid 800
#0

Tessar

33mm slipon adapter ring, Ser VI.
Magnesium fluoride coated-
'Lumenized'
Back Focus: 90mm
Mounting hole: 1 3/8 in; 34.8mm

f/4.7 127mm Flash Supermatic,
Supermatic X #1
Tessar 38mm slipon adapter ring, Ser VI.
Magnesium fluoride coated-
'Lumenized'
Mounting hole: 1 1/2 in; 38.1mm
 
Back Focus: 113mm
f/4.7 152mm Flash Supermatic #2 Tessar 44.5mm slipon adapter ring, Ser VII.
Magnesium fluoride coated-
'Lumenized'
Mounting hole: 1 7/8 in; 47mm
 
Back Focus: 135.2mm
Coverage: 182 *

These lenses were later offered in Synchro Compur shutters. Kodak data books no longer included lens
   and shutter data for professional cameras after 1952, so do not reflect these later Ektars for press and
   view cameras. Later examples of the 101mm f/4.5 and 105mm f/3.7 may have been sold in Compur shutters,
   though I have not seen any
.
* Not available in Kodak Data Books. Reported by Michael Gudzinowicz

§
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998
From: "R. Peters" torx@nwrain.net
To: Robert Monaghan rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu
Subject: Re: thanks Re: Slide Projectors
....
One note on the 105mm f3.7 Ektar... It is easily confused with the 107mm f3.7 Kodak Anastigmat which I believe
was prewar, and I think it was a 4 element lens rather than a 5 element Heliar copy. Kodak put out a booklet
called, I believe, Kodak lenses & shutters or something like that. Showed the formulas (formulae?) for most of
the Ektars.
bob.

   
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