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Konica FL-Hexanon 300/6.3 AE
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:03 am    Post subject: Konica FL-Hexanon 300/6.3 AE Reply with quote

Shot with this rare lens and enjoy. Laughing







PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

never saw the lens before. looks nice samples


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:35 am    Post subject: Re: Konica FL-Hexanon 300/6.3 AE Reply with quote

[quote="monkjason"]Shot with this rare lens and enjoy. Laughing


Wonderful images. Very strange artefacts to the right of picture #3 in the OOF areas in front of the focus plane. Very peculiar.

The Hexanon 300/6.3 is one of the very few Hexanon lenses that one can truly call rare. It was introduced in late 1973 and is the only Hexanon with fluorite element(s) in the optical formula. It was one of the first such lenses on the market (Canon already had a 300 fluorite at the time). I have only ever seen two on Ebay, and I know of only two people who have one (now three Smile. They ain't cheap when they show up either.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I not even heard about it, thank you for share these great pictures!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing, anyone have a good link for some lens history on this lens?


PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of us probably didn't have the chance to get their hands on one of these rare birds, let alone to test one thoroughly.

Some weeks ago - in a local auction and hidden among other Konica stuff including a Konica AR 2.8/21mm lens - there was a lens which I suspected to be the mystery Konica fluorite lens. I noticed that another collector friend already was bidding on the lot, and so I refrained from inflating the price Wink. He got the set, and shortly I'll be able to compare the Konica AR 6.3/300mm Fluorite to some of my best "slow" 300mm lenses such as the Canon FL 5.6/300mm Fluorite, the Nikkor Ai 4.5/300mm ED (non-IF!), and the Mamyia Sekor C 5.6/300mm ULD.

Now my simple question: Should I include another lens and if so, which one?

S


PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevemark wrote:
Most of us probably didn't have the chance to get their hands on one of these rare birds, let alone to test one thoroughly.

Some weeks ago - in a local auction and hidden among other Konica stuff including a Konica AR 2.8/21mm lens - there was a lens which I suspected to be the mystery Konica fluorite lens. I noticed that another collector friend already was bidding on the lot, and so I refrained from inflating the price Wink. He got the set, and shortly I'll be able to compare the Konica AR 6.3/300mm Fluorite to some of my best "slow" 300mm lenses such as the Canon FL 5.6/300mm Fluorite, the Nikkor Ai 4.5/300mm ED (non-IF!), and the Mamyia Sekor C 5.6/300mm ULD.

Now my simple question: Should I include another lens and if so, which one?

S


If the SN is above 7840400, I'd love to know what it is. Smile