Serenar / Canon 35mm F/3.2 LSM

Wide-angle prime lens • Film era • Discontinued

  • Announced:
  • · June 1951
  • Production status:
  • ● Discontinued
  • Country of design:
  • · Japan
  • Original name:
  • · Canon Camera Co. SERENAR f:3.2 35mm
  • · Canon Camera Co. CANON LENS f:3.2 35mm
  • · Canon Camera Co. CANON LENS 35mm f:3.2
  • Class:
  • · Slow full-frame wide-angle prime lens
  • · Pancake lens
  • System:
  • · Canon S (LSM) (1949)

Specification

Optical design:
35mm full frame
35mm
F/3.2
6 elements in 4 groups (Double Gauss derivative)
Leica screw mount
63.4° (35mm full frame)
Diaphragm mechanism:
Diaphragm type:
Manual
Aperture control:
Aperture ring
6 (six)
Focusing:
Coupled to the rangefinder:
Yes
3.5 ft. (~1.05m)
Focusing modes:
Manual focus only
Manual focus control:
Focusing ring
Physical characteristics:
165g
⌀48×22.8mm
Accessories:
Series VI
Series VI - Screw-type round

Sources of data

  • Canon-Serenar lenses. Directions and tables (October 1952).
  • Directions, Specifications, and Tables for using SERENAR lenses (June 1951).

Manufacturer description #1

Precision built wide-angle lens based on a radically new principle created by Canon's lens designers. Tremendous resolving power for razor-edge sharpness, perfect color correction for true color pictures, increase in lens speed for wider range of photography, and increase of light ray reaching the circumference of the film frame for uniform exposure are among the outstanding improvements on this lens as compared with the 35mm f:3.5. Offers extremely excellent results in black-an-white an color photography.

Manufacturer description #2

A six element lens in non-collapsible mount, with characteristics similar to the 35mm f:2.8, but approximately 1/2 stop slower speed.

From the editor

Series VI 34mm adapter ring is used to mount the lens hood.

Other wide-angle prime lenses in the Canon S (LSM) system

■Leica screw mount (9)
Canon 25mm F/3.5 LSM • Pancake lensM5 - 31.00mS.VI 1956 ●
Serenar / Canon 28mm F/3.5 [I] LSM • Pancake lensM6 - 41.00mS.VI 1951 ●
Canon 28mm F/3.5 [II] LSM • Pancake lensM6 - 41.00m⌀40 1957 ●
Canon 28mm F/2.8 LSM • Pancake lensM6 - 41.00mS.VI 1957 ●
Serenar / Canon 35mm F/2.8 [I] LSM • Pancake lensM6 - 41.00mS.VI 1951 ●
Canon 35mm F/2.8 [II] LSMM6 - 41.00m⌀40 1957 ●
Canon 35mm F/2 LSMM7 - 41.00m⌀40 1962 ●
Canon 35mm F/1.8 LSMM7 - 41.00mS.VI 1957 ●
Canon 35mm F/1.5 LSMM8 - 41.00m⌀48 1958 ●

Lenses with similar focal length

■Leica screw mount (31)
Chiyoko Rokkor 35mm F/3.5 [C] LSMM4 - 31.00m⌀34 1956 ●
Cosina Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm F/2.5 P MC LSM • Pancake lensM7 - 50.90m⌀39 2000 ●
Cosina Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm F/2.5 MC LSMM7 - 50.70m⌀39 2000 ●
Cosina Voigtlander Ultron 35mm F/1.7 Aspherical LSMM8 - 60.90m⌀39 1999 ●
Cosina Voigtlander Heliar 40mm F/2.8 Aspherical LSM • Pancake lensM5 - 30.70m⌀34 2022 ●
Fuji Photo Film Fujinon 35mm F/2 LSMM7 - 53.5 ft. 1954 ●
Konica Hexanon 35mm F/2 LSM (1000 units)M7 - 60.90m⌀46 1996 ●
Konica UC-Hexanon 35mm F/2 LSM (1000 units) • Pancake lensM7 - 60.90m⌀43 2001 ●
Kowa Prominar 35mm F/2.8 LSMM6 - 43.5 ft.⌀34 1957 ●
Leitz Wetzlar Summaron 35mm F/3.5 [SOONC / 11005] (up to s/n 1,423,140)M6 - 41.00mA36 1950 ●
Leitz Elmar 35mm F/3.5 [EKURZ, EKURZKUP, EKURZCHROM]M4 - 31.00mA36 1930 ●
Leitz Wetzlar Summaron 35mm F/2.8 [SIMOO / 11006]M6 - 41.00mE39 1958 ●
Leitz Wetzlar / Leitz Canada Summicron 35mm F/2 [I] [SAWOO / 11008]M8 - 61.00mE39 1958 ●
Leitz Wetzlar Summaron 35mm F/3.5 [SOONC] (from s/n 1,423,141)M6 - 41.00mE39 1956 ●
Light Lens Lab 35mm F/2 LSM • CollapsibleM8 - 60.50m-- 2023 ●
Light Lens Lab 35mm F/2M8 - 60.70m⌀39 2021 ●
Nippon Kogaku W-Nikkor·C 35mm F/3.5 LSMM4 - 33.5 ft.⌀34.5 1949 ●
Nippon Kogaku W-Nikkor[·C] 35mm F/2.5 LSMM6 - 43.5 ft.⌀34.5 1952 ●
Nippon Kogaku W-Nikkor[·C] 35mm F/1.8 LSM (1471 units)M7 - 53.5 ft.⌀43 1956 ●
Olympus Zuiko C. 40mm F/2.8 LSMM5 - 43.5 ft. 1950 ●
Rollei HFT Sonnar 40mm F/2.8 LSM (430 units)M5 - 40.70m⌀39 2002 ●
Sankyo Kohki W-Komura 35mm F/2.8 LSMM6 - 41.00m⌀43 ●
Sankyo Kohki W-Komura 36mm F/1.8 LSMM7 - 51.00m⌀58 ●
Sankyo Kohki W-Komura 35mm F/3.5 LSMM5 - 41.00m⌀34 ●
Mir-1 37mm F/2.8 LSM
akaМИР-1 37mm F/2.8		P6 - 50.70m⌀49 ●
Jupiter-12 35mm F/2.8 LSM
akaЮПИТЕР-12 35mm F/2.8		M6 - 41.00m⌀40.5 1950 ●
Steinheil Munchen Orthostigmat 35mm F/4.5 VL LSMM6 - 21.00m ●
Tanaka Kogaku W Tanar 35mm F/3.5 LSMM5 - 23.5 ft. 1955 ●
Tanaka Kogaku W Tanar 35mm F/2.8 LSMM6 - 43.5 ft. 1956 ●
Tokyo Kogaku Topcor 35mm F/2.8 LSMM6 - 43.5 ft.⌀40.5 1955 ●
Carl Zeiss Jena Biogon 35mm F/2.8 T LSMM6 - 41.00m ●

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