Leitz Wetzlar Hektor 135mm F/4.5
Medium telephoto prime lens • Film era • Discontinued
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- Announced:
- · 1954
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · FRG (Federal Republic of Germany)
- Original name:
- · Ernst Leitz GmbH Wetzlar Hektor f=13,5cm 1:4,5
- Order No.:
- · HEFAM
- · HEFAR-M / 11135 - silver
- · OHEBO-M / 11140 - short focusing mount
- · HEKOO - lens unit
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame medium telephoto prime lens
- System:
- · Leica M (1954)
Model history (2)
| ■Leitz Wetzlar Hektor 135mm F/4.5 [HEFAR / 11035, HEFARKUP, HEFARCHROM, OHEBO / 11040] [LSM] | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | 1933 ● | ||
| ■Leitz Wetzlar Hektor 135mm F/4.5 [HEFAM, HEFAR-M / 11135, OHEBO-M / 11140, HEKOO] | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | E39 | 1954 ● | |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 135mm | |
| F/4.5 | |
| 4 elements in 3 groups (Cooke triplet derivative) | |
| Leica M | |
| 18.2° (35mm full frame) | |
| On Leica M8/M8.2 APS-H [1.33x] cameras: | |
35mm equivalent focal length: | 179.6mm (in terms of field of view) |
35mm equivalent speed: | F/6 (in terms of depth of field) |
Diagonal angle of view: | 13.7° |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Manual |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring |
| 15 (fifteen) | |
| Focusing: | |
Coupled to the rangefinder: | Yes |
| 1.50m | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 440g | |
| ⌀51×127mm | |
| Accessories: | |
| Screw-type 39mm | |
| IUFOO / 12575 |
Source of data
- Interchangeable lenses are giving your LEICA new perspective booklet (PUB. 11-34) (April 1960).
Manufacturer description #1
A very versatile lens, with which the picture area can be filled from an even greater working distance than with the 90mm lens. Its special value is in sports photography, in recording fine detail in architecture, and in photographing people and animals from a distance unobserved. Distance is brought near, and foreshortened perspective can give surprising pictorial effects.
Manufacturer description #2
Hektor f/4.5 135 mm in short mount:
This lens is designed for use on the VISOFLEX I and II reflex attachments. Optically it is identical with the 135 mm HEKTOR in long mount already described. With the lens head unscrewed and used in the universal focusing bellows and the VISOFLEX I a working range is obtained from same-size (1:1) reproduction to infinity.
From the editor
Lens unit HEKOO could be unscrewed and used on the VISOFLEX II or III with the universal focusing mount 16 464 PLUS the adapter ring 16 472.
Short focusing mount OHEBO could be used on the VISOFLEX II or III with the intermediate ring 16 466 which had tripod foot adjustable for horizontal or vertical mounting.
Other medium telephoto prime lenses in the Leica M system
| ■Leica M mount (6) | |||||||||
| Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 135mm F/4 [11850, 11950, 11951] | M | 4 - 4 | 1.50m | E39 | 1960 ● | ||||
| Leitz Wetzlar Tele-Elmar 135mm F/4 Type 1 [11851, 11852] | M | 5 - 3 | 1.50m | E39 | 1965 ● | ||||
| Leica Tele-Elmar-M 135mm F/4 Type 2 [11861] | M | 5 - 3 | 1.50m | E46 | 1993 ● | ||||
| Leica APO-Telyt-M 135mm F/3.4 [11889] | M | 5 - 4 | 1.50m | E49 | 1998 ● | ||||
| Leitz Canada Elmarit-M 135mm F/2.8 [I] with OVU [11829, 11827, 11828] | M | 5 - 4 | 1.50m | 1963 ● | |||||
| Leitz / Leitz Canada Elmarit-M 135mm F/2.8 [II] with OVU [11829, 11828] | M | 5 - 4 | 1.50m | E55 | 1974 ● | ||||
Lenses with similar focal length
| ■Leica screw mount (15) | |||||||||
| Serenar / Canon 135mm F/3.5 [I] LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | S.VII | 1952 ● | ||||
| Canon 135mm F/3.5 [II] LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | ⌀48 | 1958 ● | ||||
| Chiyoko Tele Rokkor 135mm F/4 [C] LSM | M | 4 - 3 | ⌀40 | 1948 ● | |||||
| Leitz Wetzlar Hektor 135mm F/4.5 [HEFAR / 11035, HEFARKUP, HEFARCHROM, OHEBO / 11040] | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | 1933 ● | |||||
| Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 135mm F/4.5 [EFERN, EFERNKUP, EFERNCHROM] | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | A36 | 1931 ● | ||||
| Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 135mm F/4 [11750] | M | 4 - 4 | 1.50m | E39 | 1960 ● | ||||
| Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-Q·C 135mm F/4 LSM (491 units) | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | ⌀40.5 | 1948 ● | ||||
| Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-Q[·C] 135mm F/3.5 LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 5 ft. | S.VII | 1951 ● | ||||
| Sankyo Kohki Komura 135mm F/3.5 LSM | M | 5 - 4 | 1.50m | ⌀48 | ● | ||||
| Jupiter-11 135mm F/4 LSM akaЮПИТЕР-11 135mm F/4 [П] | M | 4 - 3 | 2.50m | ⌀40.5 | ● | ||||
| Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm F/4.5 [VL] LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | ● | |||||
| Sun Telephoto 135mm F/3.5 LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 5 ft. | ● | |||||
| Tanaka Kogaku Tele-Tanar 135mm F/3.5 C. LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 5 ft. | S.VII | 1956 ● | ||||
| Tokyo Kogaku Topcor 135mm F/3.5 LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 5 ft. | ⌀46 | ● | ||||
| Yashica Super Yashinon 135mm F/3.5 LSM | M | 4 - 3 | 1.50m | ⌀46 | 1959 ● | ||||