Voigtlander 21/4 Color-Skopar Photos

[WJJ3]

Drugstore Fuji iso400 color negative film & flare 😀

This is great!

 

[WJJ3]

Winter2015_51 by WilliamJosephJefferson, on Flickr

 

[Filzkoeter]

21mm lenses do have some weird portrait potential hidden in them 🙂

 

[Huss]

Drugstore Fuji iso400 color negative film & flare 😀

It's the same film if you bought it at a pro camera shop.
😉

 

[Filzkoeter]

It's the same film if you bought it at a pro camera shop.
😉

Proooopably, but usually pro-shops don't sell the cheap 'drugstore-brand' versions where no one really knows what exact emulsion is inside 😀

 

[Bob Michaels]

Rodeo in Sancti Spiritus Cuba. I love the Cuban concept that if you want to photograph a rodeo standing out in the arena, it is your a** at risk and not their problem.

Same rodeo

Special police on the Prado in downtown Havana. Regular police are not too intelligent, corrupt, lazy, yahoos from out in the country. However the Special police are very different, always have spotless black uniforms, and almost always have a dog to work with. You are not supposed to photograph police but this guy allowed me a shot before he waved me off.

 

[Huss]

M2 21 mm Color-Skopar Porta 160


56710022 by madnbad54, on Flickr

Awesome! Perfect use of the 21!

 

[Huss]

Bob, your work is just terrific.

 

[Huss]

I just picked up one of these little guys for use on my M240, I really enjoy it and the center image quality is excellent, but the borders of the frame... well, they're downright blurry, right out to f/16. Is this normal for this lens on digital? I can deal with the red edges, but complete lack of detail outside the center of the frame is a little problematic unless you compose to only have what's important in the middle.

It does not work well on digital. It's designed for film cameras.
Its rear nodal point is too close to the sensor, which causes the blurry edges and colour shifts.

 

[Denton]

Decentering?

Decentering?

anyone have a copy with unequal resolution on either side? I love the size of this lens, but my copy is clearly better on right side vs. left and it drives me crazy. My 21mm Biogon was purchased to find a better lens, and it clearly is with respect to my copy.

I'm tempted to order another to see if this decentering can be selected out. I guess quality control with affordable lenses is a gotcha...
Denton

 

[lawrence]

Andy, Potosi, Bolivia. Jan 2009

Andy, Potosi, Bolivia. Jan 2009

 

[MIkhail]

 

[wilonstott]

Lots of cool stuff on this thread. I love this lens, and I need to use it more. I', always astounded by the resolution. Great little gem.

Here's my most recent shot with it. Leica M4-P and Fuji Provia 100f.

 

[froyd]

Lots of cool stuff on this thread. I love this lens, and I need to use it more. I', always astounded by the resolution. Great little gem.

Here's my most recent shot with it. Leica M4-P and Fuji Provia 100f.

Beautiful image!

What shutter speed were you using? Cannot have been much considering the iso100 and f4 constraints!

 

[wilonstott]

Beautiful image!

What shutter speed were you using? Cannot have been much considering the iso100 and f4 constraints!

Thanks for the compliment!

I didn't record the shutter speed, but the room was lit with a bright florescent, so I would assume somewhere around a 30th or a 15th.

 

[WJJ3]

IMG_8691 by WilliamJosephJefferson, on Flickr

 

[kuuan]

on Sony A7 it produces smeared corners but for most street use imo it's perfectly alright, not the 'dog' I had been made believe it would be 😉


Untitled by Andreas, on Flickr

 

[SamShio]

Taken while in Ginza Japan on a Bessa R4M

 

[coelacanth]

Thing we do for that one shot. by Suguru Nishioka, on Flickr

 

[jamin-b]

A trio with Leica IR filter on my M8:

Jan16_M8_infra_CV21-24 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr


Jan16_M8_infra_CV21-79 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr


Jan16_M8_infra_CV21-5 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr