Canon f/0.95 in M-mount: Results (Pics Inside)

[the_jim]

Ok, so my boss wouldn't let me buy the lens off of him, but he did let me borrow it for the weekend. These are by no means the best shots. Whatever. Here is what this m-mount .95 lens looks like. I am confident in my rangefinders accuracy and in my focusing ability, but the focus seemed to be a bit off in some of the photos.

Wide open.

f/2.8

Wide open.

f/2.8

f/5.6

Wide open.

 

[payasam]

Focus does seem off in a couple of the wide open shots.

 

[sheepdog]

Damn you, I was beginning to think my 50/1.2 would be my brightest M-lens for a long while.. Those wide open shots look wild!

🙂

 

[the_jim]

Damn you, I was beginning to think my 50/1.2 would be my brightest M-lens for a long while.. Those wide open shots look wild!

🙂

Yeah, I can understand that. It's a really well made, cool looking, big hunk of glass.

If anyone else has some photos from this Canon it would be nice to see what it can look like when it focuses properly.

 

[kb244]

It could be a combination of being off (you'd have to have a rangefinder with a long enough baselength to really be considered 'accurate' enough to eye-ball it), but also just general quality wide open. The lens probably always has been soft wide open so probably not your fault, as you'll note it cleans right up within 2-3 stops of 0.95.

I think the big idea is that those old very fast lens were not designed to be sharp/accurate, but rather give you the ability to capture a moment that you might not have otherwise been able to capture, very worthy to the photojournalist .

PS: What body was it mounted on?

 

[philipandre]

Back front

Back front

Yes! I to have sometimes identical observation... the 0.95 to have back front ... I to put question... the helicoid ring being 50 mm Leica??? I to believe that not, and the being back front according to the distance from point ...

 

[Mackinaw]

I kind of think the film-to-lens-mount distance is off with your boss's 50/0.95. Attached are two shots taken with my Canon 7 and Canon 50/0.95. Both wide-open, one full frame the other cropped. A properly adjusted 50/0.95 will be surprisingly sharp in the center 1/3rd of the picture, and soft in the outer reaches.

Jim B.