35 f2 Canon...dynamite

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35 f2 Canon...

Man alive, this is one incredibly sharp lens. Not too contrasty, not too flat.

I've been printing some scans of 2/3 cropped negs, 11X15 approx...they don't look 6X6 but they sure don't look fast-35mm...ultra-sharp, much better than I expected (these are my first critical prints)...Neopan 400 @ 800, Tetenal Emofin...scanned Nikon V using Vuesan, "slight grain reduction." Slight Photoshop USM. Printed both black-only and QTRgui/sepia on Moab Entrada Bright White...not sure yet which I prefer....

incidentally, these wouldn't have to have been cropped if I'd used my Leica finder instead of struggling with my Canon P's obscure 35mm bright lines.

I'll post on Gallery...this is a weightlifter and his wife with their infant...tender, proud, very cool couple. 😀
 
I don't know which version mine is. Black?

Your highway/trees/tunnel photo might print nicely...cropped from the top and with the trees darkened... 🙂

....and what is that boat thing on top of the pillows? 😕

I've tried to post the photo I mentioned but the Gallery is being cranky...same evidently buggy problem last week..got fixed when I asked about it last time.
 
Both versions are black, but there are apparently some optical differences.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/s/data/s_35_2v1.html

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/s/data/s_35_2v2.html


http://canonrangefinder.servehttp.c...x.php?page=lenses&type=wide_angle_lenses&id=6

The "highway/trees/tunnel photo" is of Beach Dr. in Rock Creek Park here in Washington; yes, if I were to print it, I'd probably crop out the sky. The boat thing is something I saw @ a local antiques/junk shop; I don't know what it actually is or what relationship, if any, it has to the pillows.

djon said:
I don't know which version mine is. Black?

Your highway/trees/tunnel photo might print nicely...cropped from the top and with the trees darkened... 🙂

....and what is that boat thing on top of the pillows? 😕

I've tried to post the photo I mentioned but the Gallery is being cranky...same evidently buggy problem last week..got fixed when I asked about it last time.
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Argh, and to think I could have bought a mintyish example of the second generation ! :bang:

If I'm going to be poor anyway, I could have been poor with one as well :bang:

Sorry, just putting my thoughts ... 🙁
 
I have been looking to buy a 35/2 for quite a while, but keep getting outbid, or notice the FS ad arrive a too late. The way everyone praises this lens, I really want one.
 
My modest sample (Starbucks trio) is now online.

Evidently needed to be JPG...sometimes TIFF seems to work?

My 35's the more common early version (to 1962).

Joe's advice about getting a 40MM hood from Gandy's absolutely right...I've still got to get a thin Walz filter...because my B+W vignettes when the hood's added.

Perfect CV lenshood-cap forgetmenot: attach a double-folded piece of tape that sticks UP from cap about 3" into your view 🙂 Also, I've found an old 52mm plastic clip-on cap that fits nicely INSIDE the hood...makes more sense IMO than the CV flying-saucer cap that I bought with the hood.
 
Incidentally, I'm NOT yet convinced that it performs better than my Summaron 35 3.5.

MAYBE sharper, maybe not. I didn't NEED this lens, but its more conventional focus/aperture rings and screw-in hood do make it a little easier to use than the Leica.

I want to sell the Summaron, hood, and (probably) Leica bright frame finder along with a very nice IIIC. Lovely package. Then I'll get the smaller CV finder.
 
Another good hood alternative is 1 of the Walz/Hoya/Kenko vented 40mm screw-in's originally made for the Canon 50/1.8 lenses (usually marked "For Canon" on the edge)--they work perfectly without vignetting on my 35/2 (but I've never tried it w/a filter mounted, too). There are a couple guys on eBay (heavystar & eagle something?) who sell modern vented hoods like the Walz, but I'm not sure if they've got 'em in 40mm.

djon said:
My 35's the more common early version (to 1962).

Joe's advice about getting a 40MM hood from Gandy's absolutely right...I've still got to get a thin Walz filter...because my B+W vignettes when the hood's added.

Perfect CV lenshood-cap forgetmenot: attach a double-folded piece of tape that sticks UP from cap about 3" into your view 🙂 Also, I've found an old 52mm plastic clip-on cap that fits nicely INSIDE the hood...makes more sense IMO than the CV flying-saucer cap that I bought with the hood.
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no 40mm hoods from those guys, which seems odd to me as they have 39 and 43 etc.

the biggest benefit of the gandy/hansa hood is it's size. it's small and it works.

i had a walz vented hood and still have one original canon hood in 40mm and they work but seem out of place on the tiny 1/8 or 2 lenses.

joe
 
I have a vented Kenko squeeze-fit that works fine on the 35 f2, but I worried I'd lose it if I carried it (like I did with an expensive F1 hood)...I did attach an elastic safety belt, but that seemed a little excessive...so I got a Gandymatic.
 
Randal Hooper, back in 1992, wrote a series of articles for the "Viewfinder" which is a magazine published by the Leica Historical Society of America. The series is entitled "The Other 35" and details all of the rangefinder lenses Canon made in the LTM mount. He includes production numbers and dates, lens schematics, info on viewfinders and lens hoods, etc. and is the best thing I've ever seen on these lenses (even better than the Canon Museum).

Regarding the 35mm F2.0, he states that, "The first version of the 35mm f2 lens is unknown to the author but it is accepted that its optical formulae and mechanical features are identical to that of the second version. It can be theorized that slight differences in the mount, e.g., distance scale in feet or meters instead of a dual scale, led the factory to conclude that two separate versions of the 35mm f2 exist."

Interesting, eh?

Jim Bielecki
 
Joe,

Not that I know of. This DVD is something that the LHSA was working on for some time and was just mailed out to its members. It's absolutely superb and, as Harry stated a few weeks back, is well worth getting. The only way to get it, now, is to be a member of LHSA.

I'll try and include some other interesting Canon rangefinder lens info as time allows. For you Canon 50mm 1.5 fans, it looks like the first version of the 50mm F1.4 was derived from the F1.5, the lens schematic shows an optical configuration that is very Sonnar-like. Too bad it was only produced from November, 1957 until March, 1958.

Jim
 
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