Voigtlander .95
Jun 8, 2012 23:25:42 #
RobertW
Loc: Breezy Point, New York
Has anyone had any experience with the new Voigtlander.95 lens???? Using MP3 Oly and waiting for dely of the new OLY OMD EM5 and am thinking this lens a natural addition to the kit lens being offered with the EM5
Jun 9, 2012 03:09:17 #
RobertW wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with the new Voigtlander.95 lens???? Using MP3 Oly and waiting for dely of the new OLY OMD EM5 and am thinking this lens a natural addition to the kit lens being offered with the EM5
Is this a Skopar lens or made by a cheap manufacturer and branded V/L?
Jun 9, 2012 06:34:33 #
I wouldn't do it, too expensive.
and you have to stop it down to 2.8 at close distances!
so what's the point?
Oly's 17mm or 50mm just as good.
Buy an adapter ring from ebay cheap !!! and use
high quality cheap lenses from film cameras
since that Voigtlander is manual focus anyways.
and you have to stop it down to 2.8 at close distances!
so what's the point?
Oly's 17mm or 50mm just as good.
Buy an adapter ring from ebay cheap !!! and use
high quality cheap lenses from film cameras
since that Voigtlander is manual focus anyways.
Jun 9, 2012 10:34:27 #
RobertW
Loc: Breezy Point, New York
Good advice,- wasn't aware has to stop down to 2.8 up close.....Have the Oly 12mm f2.0 already and THAT is amazing...will check out an extension ring for that...Good idea??RobertW
Jun 9, 2012 10:50:50 #
I mean you have to stop down 2.8 for a sharp picture.
otherwise soft.
otherwise soft.
Jun 9, 2012 11:55:24 #
RobertW
Loc: Breezy Point, New York
Understand, but why would I pay that for a lens that will only give me soft results at 2.8 (and 2.0 and .95 as well??)
Jun 9, 2012 12:34:41 #
Sometimes I get the feeling that more and more megapixels
and faster and faster lenses is akin to the horsepower
race.... more is better. It does sell gear though even if you don't
need it.
and faster and faster lenses is akin to the horsepower
race.... more is better. It does sell gear though even if you don't
need it.
Jun 9, 2012 16:22:51 #
Bill41 wrote:
Is this a Skopar lens or made by a cheap manufacturer and branded V/L?
RobertW wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with the new Voigtlander.95 lens???? Using MP3 Oly and waiting for dely of the new OLY OMD EM5 and am thinking this lens a natural addition to the kit lens being offered with the EM5
Is this a Skopar lens or made by a cheap manufacturer and branded V/L?
I believe it is a "Nokton," a more expensive line than the "Skopar" line within the Voigtlander brand. Voigtlander is the oldest name in photography (1756?) but the rights to using that name now belong to Cosina of Japan. I have a 2003 Voigtlander 28 mm for a 1950s Contax IIIa rangefinder film camera and the results from it are quite good, but of course that's a much different application.
Jun 9, 2012 17:49:36 #
RobertW wrote:
Understand, but why would I pay that for a lens that will only give me soft results at 2.8 (and 2.0 and .95 as well??)
I'm curious about the F .95 which in theory means your camera receives more light than than strikes the lens. Nikon did this a few years ago by adding a small light inside the lens is this what they're doing?
Jun 9, 2012 18:22:17 #
When I used this lens on my M-9 the size of it blocked about 1/3 of
my viewfinder. So I got around the problem by focusing through the
rangefinder and composing with a 50mm shoe mount viewfinder.
my viewfinder. So I got around the problem by focusing through the
rangefinder and composing with a 50mm shoe mount viewfinder.
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