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[Captwbrd]

The camera I purchased came with two lenses.
The first was a Kodak Ectar ES1698. That makes sense -- according to you site a 1947 lense.

I also have a Kodak Anastigmat F7.7 152mm #92091. It has ILEX on the outer black forward facing ring. After reading all the information and the article that is available -- this lense does not match anything.

Is there any information or a website that will give me reference to the above number.

Thanks,
Kim

[ This Message was edited by: Captwbrd on 2001-07-25 18:00 ]

[Les]

A couple of things come to mind. This may be a pre war lens. Many of the Kodak Anastigmats became "ektars" in the 40s with the advent of coating.

It may also be a post war lens was licensed to Ilex by Kodak and therefore took the older name. Here's a little history to confuse you.

Back in '03 Zeiss designed a lens and named it the Tessar. That name was copyrighted and only offical licensees could use the name. Bausch & Lomb were the US liscensees, but they also made the same lens for Kodak Under the Kodak label it was named Anastigmat since the Kodak was a sub-licensee.

This may have happened with this Kodak/ Ilex lens. Kodak wasn't going to give Ilex the Ektar name so they went with a public domain name.

The last possiblily is that it's a Kodak lens in an Ilex shutter?

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[Captwbrd]

Okay you got me thinking. I took apart the assembly and got out my magnifying glass. Turns out it is a Kodak uncoated lense in a Ilex shutter. I asume that would make it a prewar unit. Just had not run into that combination before. Thanks for your help.
Kim

[Les]

I haven't either, it's probable that the compur or compound may have expired along the way and the ilex was handy.

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