Unusual lens hood sizes of 1950's & 60's classic cameras

I have recently acquired a job lot of 1950's and 1960's filter

holders and lens hoods.

The makers were all British; Photo Science, BDB and Actina.

Unfortunately they are nearly all sizes which are not commonly used.

 

Can anyone tell me what cameras they fit?

They are mostly screw-in and not push-fit.

 

Here are the sizes of the lens hoods, which are all screw-in types:

25.5mm, 27mm, 27.5mm, 28.5mm, 29.5mm,

30mm, 30.5mm, 31.5mm, 32mm, 32.5mm, 34mm, 36mm, 36.5mm, 37.5mm, 38mm,

39mm,

45mm, 46mm, 47mm,

54mm & 55mm

They are nearly all "as new" in original boxes. There are 45 in total.

They will obviously be hard to find.

From what I can gather by searching the net, 27mm could be a Zeiss

Ikon fit (which camera I am not sure).

30.5mm should fit Carl Zeiss Werras, 36mm is a Leica fit, 45mm should

fit a 45mm Kodak Retina lens.

54mm might fit Yashica, & Petri cameras (don't know which models),

also a Voigtlander 50mm Septon lens.

I would be grateful if anyone shed some light on any of the above.

Regards

Alan Cookson

Hi Alan,

interesting stuff:27 mm is Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SuperB/BC,32 mm is

Kodak Retina IIc,IIIc,46 mm is Rollei XF 35.

But there will be more specialists in the net to answer the rest.

Regards Georg

Hi Alan,

I know that the 36.5mm hood size fits the Konica III rangefinder camera made in the late fifties, at least the 48mm f2 & f2.4 versions of the Hexanon lens. Konica made a special hood for the camera, the Konihood, which sometime appears on E-bay.

Robert Eastwood

miranda f/1.9 lenses, konica c-35 and the agfa e-photo all used the

46mm thread.

55mm for many Minolta Rokkor lenses.

 

Craig

Some Canon RF lenses take 34mm hoods/filters. Voigtlander's 50/1.5 Nokton & 50/2 Ultron for the Prominent take 45mm hoods/filters.

28.8mm is I believe Kodak Signet 35. Yes they are hard to find but not many people are looking either. Lots of cameras use 46mm including many modern ones.

Actually, the Retinas will take the 29.5mm screw-in filters. The 32mm filters they will receive are only of the push-on type.

My Voigtlander 'Superb' takes a 27.5mm screw in shade or filter or a 29mm push on. I would be interested in obtaining some screw in or push on accessories for that lens. The viewing lens is the same size. I have the facilities for adjusting the depth of shades to properly adapt to the subject lens. I will contact you by e-mail. Thanks for the information. Regards, Dan

55mm also fits Yashica Electro 35's with 1.7 lenses, 46mm fits Canonet 28's, 30.5mm fits Werras esp. with 30.5 mm internal/external threads so you can screw on the hood. But the thread pitch may vary also, you can screw up (pun intended) with the wrong pitch.

Alan Cookson: Perhaps my e-mail to you did not get through. I am interested in some of the accessories you describe. Please e-mail me at my PN address if you are interested in dealing with me. Regards, Dan