Canon LTM Size of the Canon f/1.4 LTM

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fredus

fredus

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Hi there,

Could someone post a picture of the Canon f/1.4 LTM on a Leica or Canon Rangefinder ? I can't find any good picture and was wondering about its size ...

Thanks !

Fred
 
Here's a bit of a rogues' gallery:

Attachment 1: Canon 50/1.4 with a familiar object for scale reference.
Attachment 2: On a Canon 7s.
Attachment 3: Contrasted with some other 50s I had handy -- from left, Jupiter-8, 50/1.4 Canon, 50/1.2 Canon, 50/2 Nikkor-H SLR lens.

Does any of that help? The 50/1.4 is quite svelte for its speed, I think...
 
I have wondering about this lense and other 50's too (Industar 61 and Jupiter 3). Thanks for all of your pictures. What is the special signature of the 50 1.4 anyhow? The recent examples of the 1.2 were great. I love how that lens drops off on the edges.
 
Here's my Summilux-C ( :p ) on M2 with an S-50 hood attached.
It blocks the 50mm frameline a bit with the hood attached but I guess I can live with that.
 
The signature of the 50/1.4 is pretty much that it ain't got no signature. It doesn't really do much of anything except produce sharp, contrasty, artifact-free images. In these aspects of performance it's slightly behind an ultra-modern aspheric optic such as the 50/1.5 Nokton, but not by much.

In that regard it is, of all the high-speed 50s from the classic RF era, probably the closest to a modern high-quality Japanese generic 50. It's an unobtrusive optic, the opposite of the kind of self-promoting lens that makes cognoscenti exclaim, "Ah, yes, the unmistakable off-axis highlight flare that distinguishes the 47mm f/2.6 Regno-Bloviatar!"

If you look up Sean Reid's review on Luminous Landscape of fast lenses for the Epson R-D 1, you can see some examples of what its images look like (on an R-D 1, at least.) As well as the example pictures, Sean contributes some intelligent commentary about the image characteristics of each lens he tested. While he demonstrates conclusively that the 50/1.4 isn't as sharp, especially in the corners, as the modern Voigtlander Nokton or Leica Summilux lenses, I didn't see enough difference in his sample pictures to convince me that I should spend the money (which in the case of the latter is considerable, cough, choke) to replace my Canon with one of them.
 
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