6/15/2023 0 Comments Hugo meyer lens serial numbersNot surprising, as it has to be adapted to the exact position of the shoe, and of the front of the lens, and often the need to avoid various other features on the top and front of the camera body. Looking at other examples than the one for Leica II described here, there is quite a bit of detailed variation especially on the arrangements for attaching the Megoflex to the camera. They can only be used with the standard 45mm or 50mm lens. They were also made for Contax, Krauss Peggy, Nagel Pupille (?), and perhaps other quality cameras of the period. The commonest fittings seem to be for screw-mount Leica, and each model of Leica needed a different version of Megoflex, marked with a I, II, etc. By the 1936 BJA it had vanished from their catalogue. In 1933 the UK price was £5 15s 0d, as advertised by Meyer’s UK agent, A.O. As well as these low numbers, I have seen a picture of just one with a different layout of the engraved maker’s details and a 6-digit serial number – a strange anomaly. Serial numbers seem to start low (I have seen serial numbers from 1xx to 14xx) and I guess that somewhere in the region of 2000 may have been made overall. They were sold in small numbers for several years, and do now turn up for sale from time to time. In 1932-3 the lens maker Hugo Meyer of Görlitz introduced a strange accessory for several types of 35mm camera, converting them to a twin-lens reflex.
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