CV 75/2.5 Color Heliar Review Up

[BrianPhotog]

I've gotten around to finishing my review of the CV 75/2.5 Heliar. I do wish I had been able to put together some better photographs taken with it, though. 🙁

Anyway, the review is here: http://www.cosina-voigtlander.com/content/view/42/1/

Right now I'm actually writing something on my new favorite low/med speed film Shantou ERA100. Not nearly as disappointing as Lucky was to me. So, stay tuned 😉

 

[rover]

This is my favorite lens that I don't own.

 

[rover]

Oh, I corrected the title to reflect the lens name for you.

 

[Huck Finn]

Thanks for the review, Brian. I like this lens very much. It's fast enough for most any situation outdoors & size for such walk around situations is a big plus. BTW, Popular Photography reviews are partially based on MTF & they loved this lens, so no need for apologies in your review in this regard. When they reviewed the 35 Skopar, the 35 Ultron & the 50 Nokton along with the 75 Heliar, they said that all 3 were outstanding, but that the Heliar was the best of the bunch.

 

[BrianPhotog]

Oh, I corrected the title to reflect the lens name for you.

😀

Big "duh" on my part. I had just replied to a post in another forum about the discontinuing of the 35 Ultron and my neurons got mixed, I guess 😛

Thanks!

 

[dazedgonebye]

This was a lens I was most excited to get...but have barely used.
I keep intending to shake it out a bit more.

Thanks for the good review.

 

[sockeyed]

Nice write-up, Brian.

I would probably categorize this lens as the least-used lens that I really like. It has a beautiful image quality that is not bitingly harsh but still very attractive. Tom A described it once or twice as the 'boomer lens', in that you could take pictures of baby boomers of it without them freaking about about their wrinkles when they saw the prints (I'm a Gen X'er, so I'm less worried). It renders colours and B/W tones very well, and has smooth bokeh.

It pairs fantastically with the R3A/M with the stand-alone 75mm frameline.

The reason I don't use it a lot is that it's not so different from a 50 in FOV (but it does have quite a different look to it in terms of shallow focus) and partly because I don't like using the 75mm framelines on the M6. It has travelled with me around the world, but probably only makes it onto my camera for about 5% of shots. I do really like it, though, and I think that I'll take it with me when I head out to shoot today.