Meyer Primagon 35mm 4.5 V

Impressions: I bought this lens based on mflenses pictures and recommendation.  The lens has far exceeded my expectations.   It produces lively colors even in the dullest light.  This lens is quite sharp everywhere except at extreme corners of full frame.  The extreme corner softness stays the same even when one closes the aperture all the way down.  Regardless this lens is one of the my favorite lenses especially since I was very very lucky to find it for $31.

Here are some pictures with the Primagon and Canon 5DII.

Mod: This lens was also one the most difficult lenses to adapt to Canon 5DII for two reasons:

1) The upper half of Exakta mount interferes with 5DII's mirror and needs to be filed down (please refer to my blog re 58mm Topcor for more details)

2) Additionally, to gain infinity focus the flange around the rear element has to be severely filed down.   In fact I still need to file down mine some more.  So far I can focus mine down to 5'.

Below please find pictures of this lens:

Top tip:  Most old primes use 49mm filters.  A Takumar 28mm 3.5 lens hood works with most of these lenses.   Please see the picture above.

Rating: 8 out of 10