Kodak Ektars



	The following still camera Ektars were documented in the Kodak Data Book: Lenses Shutters and Portra Lenses, Fifth Edition, 1958. This Sixth Edition of the lens Data Book is the last I have in the 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 format and may be the last of the lens Data Books, given Kodak's waning interest "serious" hardware. In this edition, there are no more Ektars documented in detail, though there are brief sections in the text portion of the professional Ektars and enlarging Ektar and Ektanon lenses, which were produced until about 1965. The Signet series is shown with interchangeable lenses for the highend models, though only the normal length f /2.8 has a name -- Ektanar, "less complex than the Kodak Ektars"-- with the wide angle and telephoto lenses simply having these functional names. The simplification of the new formulae is attributed to high index glass, though Kodak had been using this kind of glass since the late 1930s. Perhaps a coupe for marketing over the lens design units.

DESC	LENS	CAMERA/SHUTTER/ MOUNT	LENS TYPE	NOTES
	f/3.5 46mm Ektanar	Signet 40 Synchro 400	Triplet	Builtin Ser V.
	f/2.8 44mm Ektanar	Signet 30 & 50 Synchro 250	Triplet	Builtin Ser V.
	f/2.8 50mm Ektanar	Signet 70 & 80 Synchro 250	Triplet	Builtin Ser V.
	f/3.5 35mm Signet Wide-Angle	Signet 70 & 80 Synchro 250	5 element modified Heliar?	Builtin Ser V.
	f/4.0 90mm Signet Telephoto	Signet 70 & 80 Synchro 250	Tele Tessar	Builtin Ser V.
	f/2.0 50mm Retina-Xenon C f/4.0 35mm Curtar Component f/4.0 90mm Longar Component	Retina IIC / IIIC Synchro-Compur	Various	A design with interchangeable front components
	KODAK ANASTONS AND ANASTARS Beginning with the Kodak Reference Handbook of 1940, no descriptive details were given for Kodak Anastigmat and Kodak Anastigmat Special lenses mounted on consumer cameras. This scan provides limited information about these lenses as listed in 1953. More detailed information about most of these lenses is available in the table for Kodak Lenses and Shutters of 1939 .


	Ektar Home Page	Kodak Lens Index
	About Ektar lens data	Kodak Lens Lineage
	Kodak Ektar Summary	Kodak Lens Coating
	Kodak Lenses and Shutters © 1939‡	Kodak Reference Handbook: Lenses, Rangefinders and Shutters section © 1940†
	Kodak Reference Handbook: Lenses, Rangefinders and Shutters section © 1942, 1945†	Data Book on Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, for Revising Kodak Reference Handbook, © 1942, 1945; Second 1946 Printing
	Kodak Data Book: Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, Third Edition, (1948)	Kodak Data Book: Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, Fourth Edition, (1952)
	Kodak Data Book: Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, Fifth Edition, (1955)	Kodak Professional Handbook, Equipment Section, (1952)
	Kodak Data Book: Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, Sixth Edition, (1958)	Kodak Lens Serial Numbers
	Enlarging Lenses
‡ †	This booklet predates the first edition of the Kodak Reference Handbook and contains detailed information about many more lens models and considerable background information about Kodak lens design and production. Kodak issued replacement pages to registered owners of the original Kodak Reference Handbook which was published in a loose-leaf binder; the replacement pages contained updated information about new products and processes. Newer versions of the Handbook would have contained these pages. © dates in this material appear for 1940, 1942, 1943 and 1945 and perhaps other dates. One of the first separately bound Data Books was published in 1946 "For Revising Reference Handbooks," and noted as Second Printing.

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