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After review historical documents and a record of 200 samples, I am trying to solve those rumors about Leitz Xenon.❤️ Brief Conclusion: 1. The total of Taylor-Hobson (TTH) engraved Xenon would be close to 2000 lenses. 2. Xenon was designed and made under the Leica patent issued in 1937, with the collaboration of Schneider. 3. However, that patent was a modification based on the US and British patent of TTH. It needs TTH's license if selling Xenon in those countries. (So did the early Summarit.) 4. All TTH-Xenon were in feet scale, in order to sell in US and British.
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Most of us seem to be photographers as well as collectors. Show me your favorite lenses, old and new alike. I like the Noctilux range for the extreme apertures, but I prefer the Summilux range for the best speed:size/weight ratio. Here’s a Summilux gathering of 21, 24, 28, 35, 50 and 75mm. All in black.
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Here is a copy of a page from the 1938 Leica Catalogue coming from a dealer in Dublin and altered by hand to reflect prices increases and new models which were available around 1949. For example, IIIb becomes IIIc, but the model change does not really account for the huge increases in price. In 1939 a IIIb with Summar cost £43, but in 1949 a IIIc with Summar cost £86, an increase of 100%. This cannot be just explained by the change in model from 'b' to 'c'. In 1938 a IIIb with Xenon cost £59-6-0 and in 1949 an equivalent IIIc with Summarit cost £98-10-0. The war had obviously caused inflation effects and wage increases and material prices and shortages would also have had an impact. The dealer in this case was largely an optician business and I suspect that the supply to Dublin may have been from the Leitz office at 20 Mortimer Street in London. At that time the Irish pound was linked on a one for one basis with Sterling. Any information on British prices in the post war period would be welcomed. There may have some tariff differences by that time. US and European price increases over that period would also be interesting. William
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