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Post by nikonbob on May 11, 2007 8:15:20 GMT -5
A friend of mine showed me the Canon 85/2 that he had just gotten the other day. This is the first screw mount Canon lens that I have seen in the flesh. It is a very impressive lens, heavy build and smooth operating with very clear optics. I also saw some photos taken with it mounted on a Fed and have to say that there was not a thing wrong with them either. Well it looks like there is another area that I will have to explore.
Bob
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Post by kiev4a on May 11, 2007 9:30:33 GMT -5
Canon screw mount lenses were always, if anything, overbuilt. They feel like they were milled out of steel billets. The only thing you have to be careful with mounting Canon and Leitz threaded lenses on Russian cameras is that some of those lenses are designed to work with rangefinders that have rollers on the ends of the cam. FSU cameras don't have a roller and sometimes you can damage the camera or lens or both when you try to focus.
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Post by doubs43 on May 11, 2007 10:29:44 GMT -5
A friend of mine showed me the Canon 85/2 that he had just gotten the other day. This is the first screw mount Canon lens that I have seen in the flesh. It is a very impressive lens, heavy build and smooth operating with very clear optics. I also saw some photos taken with it mounted on a Fed and have to say that there was not a thing wrong with them either. Well it looks like there is another area that I will have to explore. Bob Bob, I have the f/1.9 Serenar version which uses the Leitz-style connecting cam for rangefinder coupling. I've never mounted it on an FSU camera but it would likely cause problems just as Wayne says. It'll work properly on Leica and Japanese RF cameras. The Canon 85mm Serenar lenses are generally desireable and the last three that sold on ebay averaged about $107. They are worth it IMO. Walker |
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Post by SidW on May 11, 2007 18:36:38 GMT -5
In 1958 I got a canon 135mm/3.5 to put on a FED1g. It was solid brass with lashings of chrome, weighed more than the FED. I didn't know anything then about rangefinder cams, but they did work together. On the subject of 85mm/2, I now have the Jupiter-9 and it's too fat for the FED1 and obscures the view, both viewfinder and rangefinder. But it's OK on the FED2. Is that Canon lens the same?
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Post by nikonbob on May 12, 2007 5:29:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the warning guys and I passed it on. I would agree too that they are worth the $100 or so to get one. If I remember rightly the Canon 85/2 intrudes slightly into the VF of a Fed III and that is without a hood.
Bob
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Post by kiev4a on May 12, 2007 8:57:36 GMT -5
On the 85mm and above on the Leica II type bodies you usually need a shoe mount finder--although the 135mm screw mounts tend to be thinner and not block the VF.
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