Panasonic MFT & Voigtlander Lens Recommendations

[Keyne]

I have a Pany G1 with the kit zoom and 20mm pancake. I am thinking about getting some manual focus lenses and thought the Voigtlander lenses seem like a good value but wondered what lenses people would recommend given the crop factor, etc. The plan is to use them for street, city, travel type photos (e.g. not macro or landscapes per se). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

KD

 

[awilder]

On the MTF adapter, I find the Pany version has a little better build quality than the Voightlander but both are decent. Slight shimming of the adapter with simple scotch tape might be needed for precise scale focusing with MF lenses. With the MTF sensor's tendency for edge softness on non MTF rf lenses, even a semiwide angle rf lens like a 35 must be stopped down to at least f/4 or f/5.6 for edge to edge sharpness, but for your type of shooting, this may not be that important. Considser an SLR lens for a fast semi-wide use (retrofocus design for SLRs are sharp to edge of MTF format regardless of opening) or a 50 rf lens (compact, fast and no edge softness).

 

[OlliL]

When I visit a city (no street), I take my Super-Wide Heliar with me.
IQ is great and 30mm suits me well.

 

[seakayaker1]

I have a Pany G1 with the kit zoom and 20mm pancake. I am thinking about getting some manual focus lenses and thought the Voigtlander lenses seem like a good value but wondered what lenses people would recommend given the crop factor, etc. The plan is to use them for street, city, travel type photos (e.g. not macro or landscapes per se). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

KD

I have used a number of Voigtlander lenses from 25mm to 90mm. Possibly my two favorites are the Voigtlander Nokton Classic SC 40mm f1.4 and Voigtlander Nokton Aspherical 50mm f/1.5.

. . . . . the Voigtlander Color-Heliar 75mm f/2.5 MC is another wonderful lens which a lot of folks give high marks!

Anyway for some sample photos using Voigtlander lenses, not many street shots, can be seen at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26672618@N03/sets/

The camera used was a GF1.

The size and weight of the Voigtlander lenses makes travel a breeze and pretty indiscreet when out a public setting.

Good luck and enjoy!

Life is Grand!

Dan

Sample with the 75mm

GF1 with Voigtlander Color-Heliar 75mm f/2.5 MC -- ISO 100 -- f/2.5 -- 1/4000 -- 75mm

Sample with the 50mm

GF1 with Voigtlander Nokton Aspherical 50mm f/1.5 -- ISO 100 -- f/5.6 -- 1/1600

Sample with the 40mm

GF1 with Voigtlander Nokton Classic SC 40mm f4 -- ISO 100 -- f4 -- 1/60

 

[RayPA]

I have a Pany G1 with the kit zoom and 20mm pancake. I am thinking about getting some manual focus lenses and thought the Voigtlander lenses seem like a good value but wondered what lenses people would recommend given the crop factor, etc. The plan is to use them for street, city, travel type photos (e.g. not macro or landscapes per se). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

KD

You probably want wide and fast. If you want MF lenses, don't limit yourself to Voigtlander.There are lots of lens mount adapters, so there are lots of MF lenses (Nikon, Oly, etc.) that could be a better 'value' than CV.


/