Canon 200mm f/3.5
Canon · LTM + Canon 7 bayonet · 1957 · Telephoto, 7e/5g
Also known as: Canon 200mm f/3.5 · Canon M200mm f/3.5 · Canon 200mm f3.5 Mirror Box · Canon 200/3.5
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canon 200mm f/3.5, Mirror Box | Mirror Box (internal thread) | 1957 | — | No figure published |
| Canon M200mm f/3.5, Mirror Box 2 | Mirror Box 2 (three-lug bayonet) | 1958 | — | No figure published |
- The Mirror Box (1957) screws into the body's 39 mm thread and holds a mirror that flips up on a double cable release; its lenses focus by their own helicoid or by a bellows. The Mirror Box 2 (1958 per lens-db and the museum's M-lens dates; 1961 per Leica Copies Japan) clips onto the Canon 7's outer bayonet and takes its own three-lug lenses — the M135 and M200 — and the 400 to 1000 mm heads through an intermediate tube and Bellows R. The two boxes' lens mounts do not interchange (Leica Copies Japan).
How to tell them apart
Canon 200mm f/3.5, Mirror Box:
- Marketed March 1957, ¥75,000 · 488 g · 36.5 mm filter · stops to f/22 · 14 blades
- Screws into the Mirror Box's internal thread; 36.5 mm filter; 488 g; focuses to 3 m
Canon M200mm f/3.5, Mirror Box 2:
- Marketed July 1958, ¥73,000 · 610 g · 58 mm filter · stops to f/22
- Marked M; three-lug bayonet; 58 mm filter; 610 g; focuses to 2.5 m
Specifications
- Formula
- Telephoto, 7e/5g
- Construction
- 7 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/3.5–f/22
- Diaphragm blades
- 14
- Min. focus
- 3 m
- Weight
- 488 g
- Filter
- 36.5 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1957
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- ¥75,000 (March 1957, Canon Camera Museum) (today ¥469,000)
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History
The first lens for Canon’s reflex housing: seven elements in five groups, marketed in March 1957 at ¥75,000 with the Mirror Box, then in July 1958 as the M200 for the Mirror Box 2 with a different mount and a closer focus. Leica Copies Japan describes the first box’s double cable release, one plug on the shutter and one on the mirror plunger, and the second box’s lever that fires both.
Neither version fits a rangefinder without its box, and the boxes do not share lenses; a 200 sold without its housing is a paperweight until the right one is found.
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Live listings
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