Leitz Announces Hektor Primes
Designed for cameras using mirrorless mounts, the T2.1 lenses are available in 18mm, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 73mm and 100mm focal lengths.
Leitz Cine’s Hektor prime lenses for cameras using mirrorless mounts are available in six focal lengths: 18mm, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 73mm and 100mm, all T2.1. The user-interchangeable mount options include E, L, RF and Z.
The look of Hektor was curated by examining lenses from the past 100+ years of cinema and photography, and is inspired by classic M lenses from the 1930s and 1950s, as well as Petzval lenses. These characteristics were achieved by utilizing non-aspherical designs reminiscent of the 1980s/’90s. Modern touches include coatings that control veiling glare as well as significantly reduced chromatic aberration.
Hektor lenses are fully manual and feature an 80mm outer diameter. The 25-100mm lenses have a 77mm screw-in filter thread. Focus- and iris-ring locations match for quick lens changes with 120-degree and 49-degree rotations, respectively, making them easy to work with when operating and pulling focus. A nine-blade iris maintains a round shape through all stops for consistency in the out-of-focus areas.
The name Hektor refers to the original Leica Hektor lenses created in the 1930s by Max Berek for Leica’s original screw-mount 35mm cameras. Though not an adaptation of those lenses, the new series pays homage to them with a silver anodized finish and the inclusion of a 73mm, an iconic lens in the original line.
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