gvaliquette Posted October 31, 2010 Share #1 Â Posted October 31, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) To all of you historical gurus, Â How does the "Taylor Hobson" Xenon differ from the other Xenons. The Wiki entry mentions it, but does not give any specific information beyond "Taylor Hobson variant". Â Thanks for enlightening me. Â Guy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jc_braconi Posted October 31, 2010 Share #2 Â Posted October 31, 2010 the lenses wear the "Taylor-Hobson US Patent 2019985" or "Taylor-Hobson Brit.Pat. 373950" engraving as in export countries this company held the patents. Leitz had a later patent for the same design. here is a pict about a Summarit holding the engraving Taylor-Taylor & Hobson with USA Pat. Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted October 31, 2010 Share #3 Â Posted October 31, 2010 Engraving is the only difference: the lenses are at all identical; the Taylor Hobson engraving was added to the lenses sold in countries (UK and USA, I seem) where Taylor Hobson Co. still retained the original patent of the design, which was "sold" to Schneider, which in turn allowed Leica to use the design for a 50 mm lens, being Schneider more interested to implement the Xenon design on large format lenses. Â BTW, also the Summarit 1,5 (which is, in practice, a coated Xenon) exists in the version with Taylor Hobson engraving. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted October 31, 2010 Share #4 Â Posted October 31, 2010 I whished to post a pic of my Taylor Hobson Summarit... JC has been quickier... and my pic, in comparision, is a very poor one.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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