Canon LTM What Canon 50/1.5 do you have?

[rover]

I have been discussing with chug the compatability of the early Canon lenses on Leica LTM cameras.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=49917#post49917

I wonder if the Canon 50 1.5 is a lens which potentially is made to the earlier standard and not compatible in its earliest versions.

You can look here to ID the version you have.

http://canonrangefinder.servehttp.c...ex.php?page=lenses&type=standard_lenses&id=13

Sincerely,

someone with an interest to learn about and some day own this lens.

 

[FrankS]

Cool link, Ralph. Thanks. I've got a type 3 (with no rear element group.)

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Frank,
Did you get me PM?

 

[rover]

Frank, will your lens screw into a standard LTM to M adaptor and mount to your M2 without a problem?

 

[FrankS]

Yes it does, I just double-checked.

 

[rover]

Another interesting investigation. I wonder who else can confirm compatability. Maybe this lens was always made to the Leica standard.

 

[Sonnar2]

I have a type 4 and it's working very well. cheers, Frank

 

[Sonnar2]

Dechert has a lot on early Canon's flanges. I think they were standardized not before 1946. Earlier cameras are a mixture of Contax and Leica elements, with (mostly) Nikkor lenses. It seems so that the 1.5/50 was among the earliest own-developed Canon/ Serenar lenses, but some of them being X-ray lenses (uncoated "R-Serenar" at Kitchingham's site), obviously with no need to be RF-coupled. So you will get some very early Serenar screw mount lenses not compatible to Leica, but they are very rare: Probably 1.5/50's, 3.5/50, 2/50, 4/135 and maybe others with production dates in the 1945's era. See description of "J" flange at Canon Museum (3.5/50 lens type I)
cheers Frank