The following still camera Ektars were documented in the Kodak Data Book: Lenses Shutters and Portra Lenses, Fifth Edition, 1955.
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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/3.5 78mm Chevron
Synchro-Rapid 800		 Reversed Tessar † No adapter ring required, Ser V.
Magnesium fluoride coated-'Lumenized'
f/3.7 105mm Flash Supermatic Heliar

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

Comparisons to the earlier 107mm f /3.7 Ektar.


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
  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 .
 

†
Occassionally Kodak lens designers reversed the elements in the rear group of the Tessar design so that the positive element was next to the stop. This arrangement was used for the 50mm f/3.5 Ektar for the Ektra and in the 50mm f /3.5 Anastigmat Special on the Kodak 35.

‡ 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.

 

   
 
 
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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, Fourth Edition, (1955)
Kodak Professional Handbook, Equipment Section, (1952)  
 
Kodak Data Book: Lenses, Shutters and Portra Lenses, Sixth Edition, (1958)
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†
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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