Riggson Loc: Tucson, Az

I recently bought a vintage Hanimex lens on auction and have been curious about it's pedigree. It's a 300mm f/6.3 mirror lens with a 47mm screw mount, which would indicate a mid-60s Tokina origin. There were adapters to m42, Minolta, Exacta, etc. However, Hanimex apparently marketed it as using a 47mm H mount.
Can anyone confirm that Hanimex relabeled Tokinas m47 mount as the H mount? Actually stumped Roger Hicks over on the AP forums with this question.
I would also be curious if Tokina revamped the design when they released the 300mm mirror for the mft system. The specs seem to be the same except for the mount.
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Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

Hanimex lenses never seemed to have a good reputation from what I remember of the results people were getting. Never really crisp sharp detail. Put me off ever contemplating getting one. Cannot remember if price reflected the quality, or not.

Riggson Loc: Tucson, Az

I agree Hanimex lenses have a bad reputation. This one, being Tokina, performs reasonably well for a mirror lens. Has the usual center hot spot and donut bokeh but is somewhat sharper than the current crop of Samyang/Opteka/etc. lenses. As it has a 4 digit serial number it would seem to be a limited run as well.
Browsing Google turns up no examples under Tokinas marque, only Hanimex, but the m47 mount identifies it as Tokina decisively.
I'm mostly curious about Hanimex's use of the m47 mount as Tokina dropped it almost as soon as it came on the market and why Hanimex felt the need to relabeled it as the H mount.
As the only other 300mm/6.3 I can find on Google is also a Tokina, I'm speculating on very little evidence that Tokina revived this design for the mft system lens.

delkeener Loc: SW Rhode Island, USA

I could be mistaken but Hanimex sounds like one of the made up brand names for some of the junk Cambridge Camera sold from their ad in the back of photo rags in the old days.

ecurb1105

Hanimex was a distributor, not a manufacturer. I had a Hanimex Praktica Nova 1B in the 1960s. The camera was east german and used the m47 Pentax/Leica screw thread lensmount. The 50mm f1.8 lens was an ok lens.

Riggson Loc: Tucson, Az

Most likely you are thinking of the m42 mount. Developed by Contax and later adopted by Praktica, Pentax and others. Leica used the m39 mount extensively. The m47 was only used by Tokina and had a handful of adapters to other forms.
You are right about Hanimex being a distributor. They were based in Australia and later expanded into the UK. Rarely seen in the US.