Info On Canon 25mm ?

[dcsang]

I should really just ask Joe 😉 but maybe someone else online knows some info regarding the Canon 25mm f3.5.

Davidde Stella's website is either down or offline as I know he has a write up on it but, obviously, I can't get it; so now I'm looking for anyone here who may give me the "likes/dislikes/caveats" regarding this lens.

Cheers
Dave

 

[FrankS]

Easy alternative is the CV25mm lens. The scale focusing (on such a WA lens) is actually freeing, the same way a meterless camera is.

 

[dcsang]

Easy alternative is the CV25mm lens. The scale focusing (on such a WA lens) is actually freeing, the same way a meterless camera is.

Oh.. I concur.. I use it on the CV 15mm currently.

I think I'm starting to ask such questions based on using the lenses and... umm.. heaven forbid... "collecting" as well.. errrgh.. man.. I hate you guys for doing this to me 😀

Dave

 

[xayraa33]

I have used this lens, it is a very good lens, sharp even at the larger f stops, very little vignetting. the problem is the price, its not cheap, even over a decade ago, I still have the price tag on the bottom cap on mine from 14 years ago $ 450.00 CAD used, no finder, from the now long gone ALT camera store on Church and Queen. not really a lens that I use alot, but I will hold on to it, as it is my widest rf lens.

 

[raid]

A Canon 25mm lens will be rather costly, and I also suggest to consider the small and wonderful VC 25mm/4 Snapshot Skopar lens. I used it extensively this year. The only word of caution is not to forget the refocus for close objects. Wide open it is not very sharp as it is when slightly closed down. Color rendition is super.
The Canon 25mm is more for collectors of Canon RF lenses.

 

[xayraa33]

go with a CV 25mm, if you have to have that focal lenght & at a decent price , I would not buy anything that expensive & wide now, and as Raid said , the Canon is now more for collectors, it has joined the ranks of the Nikkor 25mm .

 

[back alley]

i have nothing against the cv line of lenses...but then as you might know or have heard...canon lenses on canon bodies...that's my motto!

i know very little of this lens, never used one, never saw one in person. very expensive and i have read the few things i could find about it on the net.

kinda funny how people will spend so much on a leica lens but tell you to not to spend that same cash on a canon lens.
this is not a leica vs canon thing to me but it is a canon on canon thing for me.
i'd love to play with a cv 25 or 21 someday but i would love to own a canon 25 or 19 even more.

joe

 

[xayraa33]

back when I bought the Canon 25mm, a used black Summilux 35mm in good user shape could be had for $500 CAD(at Henry's) . thats not much more than what I paid for the Canon. that same Leitz lens is now much more expensive than the the Canon 25mm if you had to buy them at the present time. but I was, and still do not buy anything for appreciation, only if I (think) I have a use for it and I have the money in my wallet. both of those two factor change all the time. the photography still goes on. As for Canon on Canon only. I learnt long ago , there are many good lenses out there & not to restrict myself, but everyone is different, do what makes you happy, never mind other peoples modus operandi, be yourself.

 

[raid]

Another option is to get a Canon adapter B and then use Canon SLR wide angle lenses on your Canon LTM camera. It still would be a Canon on a Canon.

 

[back alley]

Another option is to get a Canon adapter B and then use Canon SLR wide angle lenses on your Canon LTM camera. It still would be a Canon on a Canon.

eeewwee!
that would be like sleeping with your cousin...😉

joe

 

[FrankS]

that would be like sleeping with your cousin...

SLR on RF? That's more like inter-species tomfoolery!

 

[xayraa33]

save some money, buy Canon 25mm or 19mm in ltm & in good shape , use , enjoy, if they fall out of favour, put them away for a while, if need money sell them, you will not lose money on them, simple.

 

[Meleica]

more data on the Can 25mm

Dan

 

[back alley]

i hope i don't come across as preachy about this canon on canon thing.
and it's not about quality as in mine is better than yours and that counts for lenses as well as ideas for me.

one of the things i like (used to) about cigar smoking is/was the ritual involved.
picking the cigar for that night, what flavours was i looking for? and then unwrapping it, cutting and lighting it properly and with any luck enjoying a good glass of scotch along with it. and taking hours to finish it off while relaxing in my easy chair maybe listening to sinatra or simone.

kinda the same for cameras to me.
i like the ritual of canon lenses on canon cameras/

joe

 

[raid]

lol 🙂 I get it, Joe. Get your Canon wide angle lenses and enjoy.

 

[laptoprob]

Canon 25

Canon 25

I got one recently from Paul from Singapore. Looking at this auction I hope I did not overpay...

Well, it is an increadibly small lens. Just as big as needed to place the three rings. In focussing, the aperture ring turns with the lens front. No space for a filter unless vignetting I am afraid. No pictures from the lens yet, sadly. Will post as soon as I can.
The 0,6 finder of CLE and Hexar seem wide enough to guess the frame. Now I will try to build something for the Bessa T.
Maybe this idea id of recycing a modified finder of a single use camera... I just don't understand yet how it can be wide enough!

Rob

 

[Mackinaw]

The Canon 25/3.5 is a real nice lens. Excellent image quality, even wide-open. A very small package, as others have mentioned, perahps too much so at least regading the aperture and focusing rings, which are somewhat fiddly.

Attached is a picture of my grandson taken with my L-1, exposure F3.5 @ 1/60th on Neopan 1600 film.

Jim Bielecki

 

[dcsang]

heh.. ya.. well.. I think that CV 25mm is looking mighty fine after watching this thing go up up and away 🙂

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7565429383

Cheers
Dave

 

[Mackinaw]

Believe it or not, prices have actually come down for the Canon 25/3.5, which used to go for about $1,000 USD until 1998, which is when Leica introduced the M 24/2.8 asph. Before then, if you wanted a 24/25 lens that would fit on a M camera, the logical (and maybe only) choice was the Canon.

Most Canon 25/3.5s' go for about $500.00, more if you throw in the excellent viewfinder. Mine cost $275.00 (lens and viewfinder) when I bought it back in the mid-1980's (a long time ago in a place far, far away).

Jim Bielecki

 

[back alley]

that's not a bad price considering it came with the vf.

joe