Considering a Canon P! Looking for Pro's and Con's

[Sonnar2]

I see the 35mm framelines with glasses, but at a finder without minification (1:1) the picture is too big to overview it with one glance. So I prefer my Bessa (0,82x) as a wideangle camera.
It's best with a 50mm or 100mm lens. To bad Canon didn't have add the 85mm framelines as well, but this probably would have annoyed other people. In fact, except for collectors there is no point to own 85mm and 100mm mixed together. So the best lenses for the Canon-P are the 50/1.8 plus the 100/3.5, both beeing very sharp and contrasty even at modern standards. Unfortunately the 100/2.0 is a quite rare and not compact lens. Of course, a guess-based composing is possible with 85mm lenses (or external viewfinder).

cheers, Frank

 

[Kyle]

I just got my P on Saturday, I haven't finished a roll with it yet but it is very nice. I tradedt a Leica M3 for it and so far no disappointments. The 35mm lines are kinda hard to see, but they're better than the 35mm lines in the M3 😉. Its a very nice camera, with build quality similar to the Leica. The one thing I noticed was, although the P isn't any bigger than my M3, Zorki 4K, or Bessa R, it seems bigger. Its really weird. I look at it and I think its huge, but then when you place it next to one of my other cameras and its the same size. I have no idea why that is, but I thought it was an interesting phenomena.