So, why isn't Canon 'cool?'

[tunalegs]

When Nikon truly became cool, after "Blow UP," it was hardly a big established company. Everyone had to have one, they sold a million F's.

Miranda was never cool, mostly just broken, Topcon definitely for about 15 minutes. Right now the only camera I can think of that is cool is the "Red."

My only new Miranda, a late T:

We're not talking about what was cool half a century ago, we're talking about what is cool right now. But if we were talking about what was cool in the bad old days...

Eugene Smith frequently used Mirandas before becoming officially associated with Minolta.

 

[Roger Hicks]

. . . Nothing is cool right now. We live in a society crushed by the Kardashians.

Try as I may, I cannot get that exceptionally unsavoury image out of my mind.

Cheers,

R.

 

[jnclde]

Lets keep Canon uncool so I can keep buying these exceptional lenses for my M2 without selling my a bit of my soul each time.

Untitled by Jean Claude Araque, on Flickr

Leica M2 w/ Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM by Jean Claude Araque, on Flickr

 

[flavio81]

I just acquired a Canon New F1 and wow .... I have been a Nikon guy for so long but this F1 is incredible ... I just hope the lenses are up to the quality of the body.

They are!! Fully up to the quality. Want some recommendations, besides the famed L lenses? There are no poor lenses on the Canon FD line, except for:

- the 100-200 which is not well loved
- the plastic zoom lenses which are supposed to be very good optically but many of them have the moving components supported by plastic bearing bushes which by now (2016) sometimes are shot, so the quality of the zoom goes to hell. You can sense this because the internal moving groups rattle and the focus point varies noticeably when twisting the zoom ring just a little.

The rest of the lenses on the FD line are very good in particular all the 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 100mm (truly a Canon specialty), 135mm and 200mm versions. That is, the most useful lengths.

For zooms some of the best zooms, optically speaking, were:
35-70/2.8-3.5 which was a landmark zoom
35-105/3.5

For 50mm i can recommend:

- the 55/1.2 for maximum quality of image rendering (smoothness and beauty of the image)
- the 50/1.4 for all-around sharpness and general purpose use, truly a great lens
- the 50/1.8 for compactness and lightness. Good samples of this one are also very sharp at about f4