CV 25/4 photos, anyone?

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I'm starting to come around on this lens. 🙂 Didn't like it much at first but it's growing on me now and my results are slowly improving. It's a fun lens to use, just frame & shoot!

Please share your photos taken with this lens. 😀

From my gallery; wide open at 1/15 hand-held. Lousy scan courtesy of CVS...
 
Frank, nice shot. Is that done with a yellow-green filter, or shot in colour and desaturated? The detail makes it look medium formatish!
 
 
Here are a few of mine. I very much like this lens, and I find it an excellent deal. I got this lens just before traveling to Japan last summer. It is a sharp lens.
 
Phillip: Thanks. I like your B&W shot with the 25/4 lens. It is an interesting perspective I have not thought of using before with this lens.
 
Raid, Phillip - It was seeing your examples that led me to use the 25/4 more often. Your photos are lovely. IMO, the 25/4 requires some patience at first but it can be very rewarding once you get a "feel" for it.

Nearsighted - Neat shots. I may take the L & 25/4 with me to a couple of bike races this season. I'll be in the follow car and I should be able to take advantage of the 25/4's perspective.
 
Hi. Here are 3 pictures from a visit to the Santa Monica Pier recently.
I absolutely love this lens. Fitted on my Bessa L, my handeld meter in hand, it is my main street shooting device; you just have to worry about taking pictures and nothing else.
It is true that it takes a few rolls to get used to it, but I became addicted after that.
I use it 90% of the time for street and then 10% when I try the ocasionnal landscape.
 
In SLRs, 24mm was for years my only wide-angle focal length, and I really missed it when I switched to RFs back before CV introduced affordable lenses. I have a 21mm Biogon and a 28mm Nikkor and ended up favoring the 28mm and not using the 21mm very often except in very special circumstances. (I shot 20mm in SLR and never liked it much either).

So last month, as part of a general updating of my RF system, I got a CV 25mm in Nikon RF mount. Below are some shots from my first couple of rolls. It's a wonderful lens, and when I first put it on and tested the field of view with the accessory finder, it felt like getting reaquainted with an old friend. I also don't mind shooting it without a separate finder, because I'm comfortable with the field of view.

The Nikon RF version, by the way, if RF coupled.
 
Okay, this is going to sound really dumb, and maybe it is, but what is the difference between the 25/4 and a 24mm slr lens? I've got a 24mm Hexanon for my Konica, but I'm trying to justify buying the 25/4 for a trip to Europe. Anyone want to help me out here? These wonderful shots with the 25/4 certainly help ease my GAS pains.....
 
1mm isn't much difference at all. There isn't any meaningful difference between 24mm and 25mm. It's just that, for whatever reason, SLRs tend to be made in 24mm and rangefinders, with the excepition of a very pricey Leitz lens, tend to be made in 25mm.

25/4 is a little on the slow side. Most SLR versions are f/2.8, which is more useful in low light. On the other hand, the CV 25mm lens is tiny and light.
 
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