![]() Aperture detents click heavily, but indistinctly, almost reluctant to find their niches. And let’s be honest, this lens belongs on an M.īreezily easy and wiggly focus portends other faults. Precise focusing - especially in live or magnified views - is troublesome. The 35/2’s focus and cam helicoids are light and full of wiggle room. Next to their SLR counterparts, they are mere children.Ĭanon’s chrom-ier LTM lenses have suitably heavy, and smooth, helicoids. They are tubular, often fluted, and small- smaller in fact than a number of current Leica lenses. Weight: 120g (lens) 133g (lens with M adapter) 154g (with adapter and hood)Īside from the front-mounted aperture ring, Canon’s ‘normal’ LTM lenses look like they belong on small SLRs Olympus’ famed OM or Pen series are prime suspects. I click and the shutter rolls over.įocal length: 35mm ~53mm on APS-C ~70mm on m43 I duck down, ninja-like, lens pointed into a puddle or at a stray ray of light breaking between houses. Shivering. But it’s just 14 centigrade and I can’t decide whether or not to add an undershirt beneath my thin button down MEC shirt.Ī benefit of wearing so little is being so spry. The locals are bundled up: mufflers and Uniqlo microfleece coats and mitts. ![]() The leaves are down and the thermometer points a bit more southerly than it did just a few weeks ago. And like a brilliant, waxed moustache, it is a refreshing break into the silliness of creation, lie ins. Cameras mean work and lenses mean subjects like headphones and speakers and cables and last minute assignments and amps and lots of time spent in darkened rooms behind beeping Profoto strobes.īut after months of 80-120 hour work weeks, November has come. I spend very little time squinting into a finder for fun. This lens is nimble and small, but unlike the 35mm Summicron of the same vintage, it fits budget-conscious shooters’ bill. And with my purchase of the X-Pro 1, more than just the Canon P’s brilliant 1:1 viewfinder beckoned to be filled. But there’s this thing about lenses and cameras that attracts geeks like me. It keeps me just far enough away from goddam people. Post purchase, most of my Canon P life was spent behind a Canon 50/1,4 LTM lens. Edit: I’ve cleaned up as much grammar as I could, trimmed away the cultural BS, and made this article easier for me to read for a video version.
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