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Vintage Angenieux lenses with/without HEC coating matching?


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Dear community,
dear Angenieux experts!

I got a set of four vintage Angenieux lenses which all match very well.
I learned that there are newer, better coated HEC versions of two of the four lenses.
I plan to convert my set to PL, but now I think of investing in the better HEC versions before I do the conversion. But I am afraid that the two HEC lenses will not match as well with the non-coated lenses, from which there are no HEC versions. These are the lenses:

Angenieux Type R7 5.9mm T2
Angenieux Type 6x9.5 T1.9 (T1.8 HEC version available)
Angenieux Type 10x12 T2.5 (T2.3 and T2.1 HEC versions available)
Angenieux Type 20x12 T4.2

What do you think?
Also if you have any information/sources on the different versions, I would be really thankful if you share them – it’s so hard to find anything.
The best thing would be a list with serial numbers and years/versions.

Thanks in advance,
Jannik

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Source: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Angénieux_serial_numbers

1935-1941 up to 15000
1942 ~15000
1943 ~25000
1944 ~40000
1945 ~50000
1946 ~65000
1947 ~95000
1948 ~120000
1949 ~150000
1950 ~175000
1951 188190
1952 205144
1953 252953
1954 333942
1955 374494
1956 422225
1957 457710
1958 489029
1959 656782
1960 772739
1961 892237
1962 983620
1963 1048806
1964 1089651
1965 1133553
1966 1165206
1967 1197971
1968 1218594
1969 1243618
1970 1276691
1971 1303945
1972 1363733
1973 1374029
1974 1388527
1975 1407046
1976 1425572
1977 1436738
1978 1445937
1979 1451571
1980 1460230
1981 1468987
1982 1473032
1983 1476845
1984 1484276
1985 1504607
1986 1517838
1987 1524014
1994 ~1548700
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