Other/Uncategorized Hexagon??

[John Robertson]

Anyone heard of this before??

39mm screw Hologon lookalike aparently made by Konica!
For sale in Vienna Leica shop.

 

[payasam]

If Konica, then HexaNon.

 

[John Robertson]

Apparently they are plastic lenses for the Konica WaiWai wide disposable cameras, which some one has remounted for 39mm thread. So they are in a way made by Konica, they are asking €250 for it!!!!!!!!!!

 

[historicist]

I've seen these in Japan a few times, and they are indeed the lens from a Konica Wai Wai remounted. In Japan they were a bit cheaper than 250 Euros, but sill pretty expensive. The conversion is quite professionally done though and the lens is actually surprisingly good, it's also very small.

The Wai Wai can be had off of ebay for a tenner or so and the conversion is farily easy to do yourself - there's a few websites out there which detail it. I don't have any links on me as my mac is back in England but a bit of googling should turn them up.

 

[projectbluebird]

€250?!

Seems a bit cheeky to me.

 

[ralph]

I have been using it for a week now - mostly on an epson rd-1. Vignettes like crazy, but still is pretty fun for me. The finder is tiny to the point of being unusable.